Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easier to treat After the Fall like any other new American play, now that the shock and reverence of Arthur Miller's self-revelation have died. The author's narrow face stared at you from the newspapers and magazines before the New York opening almost 17 months ago, and with his name came, whispered, Marilyn Monroe, now the late Mrs. Miller. So you felt like a privileged voyeur when you took your seat in the Lincoln Center Repertory Company's temporary theatre in Washington, especially when you learned that the play's director was a character in the play...
Hauck, an Englishman from Harrow, nosed out Wayne Andersen in the 220, reversing a narrow defeat to his teammate in the Yale meet here a week ago. Hauck built up a solid lead around the curve and held on in the stretch, snapping the tape in 0:22.1, 0:00.3 faster than the record set last year...
Chris Pardee on the strength of his narrow victory over Kim Hill in last week's Yale meet, is the favorite in the high jump. But this one could go either way: Hill topped Pardee for the indoor crown and just might do it again. Pardee may not have recovered fully from an ankle sprain that sidelined him early in the season...
...narrow sense, U.S. troops were there merely to protect some 2,400 terrified U.S. citizens and other foreign nationals after U.S. Ambassador William Tapley Bennett Jr. had informed Washington that Dominican authorities wanted U.S. help, that they could no longer guarantee the safety of American lives. In a much larger sense, the troops were there quite simply to prevent another Cuba in the Caribbean. What had happened, in its baldest terms, was an attempt by highly trained Castro-Communist agitators and their followers to turn an abortive comeback by a deposed Dominican President into a "war of national liberation...
...shift is partly the result of criticism-from inside the schools and from such groups as the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corp. and the Committee for Economic Development-aimed at low-caliber students, inadequate facilities and excessive focus on narrow vocational training. It has also been speeded by rapid changes in the business world, which has been made vastly more complex, innovation-minded and psychology-conscious by the onrush of technology. "We can never win a race to educate for the latest thing," Carnegie Corp. President John W. Gardner told the deans last week. "Knowledge and skill that is avant...