Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Somehow the mud had to be drained and the particular stretch of road leveled and then covered with a packed layer of sand. We worked with some of the families concerned and suggested that they petition the city for a small bulldozer which could work in the narrow streets. The city didn't have...
...French word and sculpt the idea with his hands. In private conversation, Lacouture listens with intense concentration, ignoring the steak before him; then leaning forward to hear, he pulls his Dick Tracy nose, and nods emphatically as he understands the point. A smile breaks easily and often across his narrow face, accentuating the deep wrinkles of a Chet Huntley. Girls find him lovable, and judging from the way he rolled his eyes as a Cliffie brushed past the table, it's reciprocal...
...Leibniz was doubtless the last man who knew everything," mourns Amherst Philosophy Professor Joseph Epstein. The death in 1716 of that encyclopedic German mathematician-philosopher symbolizes the time when the knowledge explosion began forcing universities to abandon the ambition of teaching every student everything, and made them narrow down to what be came the "required courses" of modern schools. Now, all over the U.S., colleges and universities are scrutinizing the value of these lock-step requirements and, to a surprising degree, are dumping them in favor of letting students form their own education patterns...
Wilcox pointed out that only a portion of the seminars could become art of the program. "A good many of them bear no relation to the Gen Ed requirement," he said. "Some of them are very narrow research projects...
...background is the barren landscape of Calabria in southern Italy, where flies buzz and donkeys bray through a stillness quite cordial to Biblical tradition. In desolate, crumbling villages, Pasolini chokes the narrow streets with children, animals and a startling collection of peasant faces. None are professional actors; the Apostle Judas is a Roman truck driver, the Virgin Mary in her later years is Pasolini's mother. Pasolini catches their simplicity and intensity with powerful effect. His camera seems to rove, news-reel-style, seeking truth among the halt, the healed, the healers, the doubters and the eyewitnesses involved...