Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviets want to negotiate merely on the narrow basis of Berlin alone, the U.S. might make some concessions for the basic conditions on which it absolutely insists: 1) the West's right to move in and out of Berlin freely, 2) Western troops in Berlin, 3) West Berlin economically and politically independent of Communism...
...reply is often right on the button: "Why. I could handle that job myself." With that opening, the recruiter interviews the prospect at length, conducts a detailed background check, sometimes with the help of a detective agency, and occasionally runs the prospect through batteries of psychological tests. Most recruiters narrow the field to three, then hand the prospects over to the client...
Kansas-born Novelist Julia Siebel seems intent on becoming the laureate of quiet lives desperately lived. In two novels about her native state, there is an occasional wheat-crop failure, but the yield of domestic unhappiness is as invariable as debt and taxes. In The Narrow Covering (TIME, July 30, 1956), careless and malevolent death bore down on ordinary prairie folk to whom Author Siebel assigned hardly a pleasant, let alone a happy, moment. For the Time Being is relatively upbeat. No one dies. Yet no one lives, either; like a quarter section of Spoon River Anthology, the human crop...
...although that world was narrow, it was not yet lax. Proper conduct was defined in terms of personal integrity and loyalty, qualities which have declined in this era of McCarthy purges and USIA propaganda techniques. Welles could defy powerful business interests and his own friends in the name of moral principle. The Good Neighbor was a creation of personal conscience, not of a cynical, pragmatic appraisal of the importance of allies in a world struggle...
Like any new toy, stereo at first appealed largely to only a narrow group. The early stereo owner was the status-conscious fellow in the neighborhood-he already had a Mercedes or didn't quite have the cash for one. In the wellappointed bachelor apartment, the stereo rig replaced the traditional etchings as a lure for the nubile. His costly equipment consisted of two speakers, two amplifiers, a special cartridge for his record player, as well as an assortment of optional gear. His stereo library was comprised mainly of trick noises and demonstration records -drum recitals, incoming tides...