Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With some melodramatic exceptions, Frederick H. Gardner's new play avoids these risks. Fairly success fully, The Rain Never Falls its focus narrow. The middle class family that builds its shelter, the working class family that seeks refuge there, the itinerants and strays who stumble in--these and not abstract horror or atrocity stories are what Gardner writes...
...population through birth control has been virtually abandoned. To Red China's masters, the swarming masses, even hungry, mean military and industrial power. Says a U.S. agricultural expert: "Even if everything were done perfectly for the next 25 years, where would they be? China would still have its narrow margin of arable land, and it would then have a population of a billion people...
Though the bar is located in an old, dark building on a narrow side street off the Place Vendome, Americans still seek it out as if Harry's were another tourist spot like the Louvre, and on U.S. election nights the proprietor installs a Teletype machine so that people can watch the results...
Outside the narrow confines of the Harvard community most people in Massachusetts would endorse a policy of prohibiting ordinary business on Sunday, even closing a real estate deal. You see, most people still feel (and some would say that it is based on more than sentiment) that Sunday is the Lord's Day and should be kept holy...
When you speak about the Blue Laws, whose influence certainly will be felt more directly by the larger Massachusetts community than by Harvard, please escape from your narrow and limited point of view. Try to understand that many people do consider Sunday more than a common day of rest. They feel, even though they are not as loquacious as the representatives of the business community, that special rules should apply on that day. Robert E. Barnett...