Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single hit that Kalinoski relinquished between the first and ninth innings drove in two runs in Northeastern's half of the sixth. After Kalinoski hit pinch-hitter Bill Shea and walked right-fielder Cam VanderVeer, Bob Geist singled into center to narrow the lead to two runs...
Pizzas and Laundromats. Evidence of the American presence is everywhere. Along blacktopped, four-lane Route 1, built by the U.S., there are miles of drive-in restaurants, Laundromats, pizza parlors and souvenir stands. Big American cars squeeze through Naha's narrow streets. G.I.s and their families crowd in and out of shops, housewives wearing scarves over the inevitable hair curlers. In Koza, the nearest large town to the Kadena base, there are numerous bars, such as the Night Queen, Cabaret Aloha and U.S. Club, and few nights go by without at least one fistfight involving overloaded Americans and Okinawans...
...faceless bureaucracies and powerless individuals. One target is today's "multiversity," with its fragmented specialists, the antithesis of Cardinal Newman's 19th century idea of the university as a seeker of wholeness. Many intellectuals are also dismayed by the style of much intellectual thought today: the narrow pragmatism of the physical and behavioral sciences. The charge is that specialization has robbed thought of moral vision. In Big Science, for example, team members work on such small segments of an overall project that they feel no ethical responsibility for the result-a minor concern if the goal...
...decry. It was morally sensitive scientists who helped inspire the nuclear-test-ban treaty, and they also lead the most informed debate on the ABM program. In addition, an entire new generation of scientific intellectuals is deeply concerned about ecology and environment-preoccupations that far transcend the borders of narrow pragmatic thinking...
...film's romance is the narrow province of the guide (Ian McShane) and an American businesswoman (Suzanne Pleshette). Between their mooning glances, the viewer is given a fast shuffle of Venice, London, Brussels and Rome. The scenes flick by like telephone poles seen from a moving window; Director Mel Stuart is more interested in drawing gross caricatures of his gawking, squawking, hamburger-hungry tourists...