Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history including his own. But it includes a view of women that harks back to the era of courtly love, "It is no longer possible to 'fall in love'," he says early on, "But in the future and with the New Woman it will be." His focus is too narrow: he conceives of the New Woman rather than a New Voice, or a New Person. About the position of women in his future utopia he sounds suspiciously like Stokely Carmichael...
...played so many unbelievably tough courses in Florida that our guys were exhausted," said Donovan to explain the narrow margin of victory. The trip was vaunted as an all-around success by the linksmen, who were smothered by the conviviality of head coach "Hoops" Thebault and his Flagler golf squad...
...people were killed in 1976?compared with 124 the year before. Flying by commercial jet in the U.S. is now at least 15 times as safe per passenger-mile as driving in a car. The passenger who shows his ticket to the smiling stewardess and buckles himself into his narrow seat has a 99.999% chance of arriving at his destination safe and sound. Indeed, flying has become so routine that the notably pragmatic insurance companies charge pilots no more for policies than they do ribbon clerks...
...guerrillas hid in dense, 5-ft. jungle grass. At night, they bicycled and walked down narrow dirt paths flanking Bumba's roadblocks. Dozens of Katangese stole into Mutshatsha, hiding in the homes of sympathizers who are outraged by the army's looting. Others perched in trees near the town and dropped grenades into crowded troop trucks as they went...
...world's greatest collections of 20th century art hung, until now, in an unexpected place: a seven-room apartment in a prefabricated building on Vernadskovo Prospekt. on the outskirts of Moscow. There, from floor to ceiling, cramming the rooms and narrow corridors, were about 380 paintings from the critical years of the Russian avantgarde, 1910-25: the work of such artists as Wassily Kandinsky. Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Tallin. El Lissitzky, Marc Chagall, Liubov Popova. An official storeroom of officially disapproved art? Not at all: a private collection belonging to a pipe-puffing, guitar-playing Greek named George...