Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, in the next page of her article, she sums up her current views on the author of The Waste Land, calling Eliot "an autocratic, inhibited, depressed, rather narrow-minded, and considerably bigoted fake Englishman...
Perhaps because he thought his father killed himself, suicide always hung like a shadow over Berryman's life, Simpson writes. She recalls an incident after a drunken prenuptial party in New York when Berryman fought with his mother and then leapt onto the narrow railing of her apartment terrace many stories above the city streets...
...have encountered a lot of ignorance, narrow-mindedness and malice in my college peers. Yes, I am talking about ignorant Harvard students, and no, that phrase is not oxymoronic. What I refer to is not academic but worldly knowledge, specifically knowledge about people...
...last year, sitting in the seminar room where I worked, I thought of the NIMBY folder as the narrow-minded folder. All these people were protesting against what everyone agreed were necessities. They just didn't want to have to be personally involved. "Please solve society's problems," seemed to be the attitude. "Just do it where I don't have...
Many Asian-Americans are channeled early on into a narrow range of academic study, Kiang said. He said that 18 percent of the Ph.D.'s earned by Asian-Americans are in the field of engineering, 20 percent are in the physical sciences and 25 percent are in the life sciences...