Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ginevra dei Benci is no Mona Lisa. Leonardo painted her some 29 years earlier, when he had only recently completed his apprenticeship in the Florentine studio of Andrea del Verrocchio. The technique, while accomplished, is stiffer than that of his later works. Yet Ginevra, a curly-haired blonde with narrow, almost Mongolian eyes, a stern, pale mouth and alabaster skin, is clearly one of Leonardo's ladies. Like La Gioconda, she is ambivalent, as cold as she is beautiful, and as repellent as she is alluring...
Lipset does not subscribe to the theory that scholars will be enticed into the narrow world of policy-problem-solving, because he believes that academic prestige and rewards go to the "pure social scientists who don't dirty themselves in the outside world." "As soon as you make the cover of Time magazine, he explains, "your academic career is shot." There are two different kinds of people in the academic world, Lipset continues, "those who are looking for their place in politics, and those who are waiting to write a book which will live...
...same meeting resolved another troublesome question for the organization: should it try to establish itself as a body with no specific objectives, or should it immediately attack a single question to rally support? The first course appealed to those who feared a disasterously narrow appeal from the single-issue approach. They preferred to set up the organization first, and then let issues feed into it as they arose. But the departmental reports had also indicated that most of the teaching fellows, even in the more apathetic departments, were interested specifically in wages and work load. Kenneth A. Waltzer...
...broken plaster abruptly assemble themselves into a bust of Dante. An egg cracks and marbles tumble out. A python oozes lazily around a large transparent bowl in which a child is huddled. Beside a giant telescope stands an old man, his ears blazing like light bulbs. On a narrow cot, a nude woman sits giggling and jiggling while an enormous, sinister horseshoe crab...
...front, senior Dave Gale hit from inside and outside in a heart-breaking 78-77 loss to Penn last Friday. Gale totted up 25 points in this narrow loss to a team which smashed the Crimson by 20 just two weeks...