Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Individual thought--the individual. Giamatti is not a man who isolates himself in an ivory tower of academia. As he told the incoming class of freshmen a few weeks ago, he laments the fact that so many students today narrow themselves to only ambitions, not affiliations. "...I raise the point about a regard for others, of individual choices leading to common concerns, because I sense in our country a growing mood of withdrawal and isolationism, a retreat from obligations stated and unstated, a desire to redefine everything in terms that only serve the self, rather than defining the self with...
...Vorster himself suggested in his farewell speech, his successor will have his hands tied to a considerable extent by his own Cabinet colleagues and the dictates of party policy. Traditionally, Nationalist ideology has been divided between so-called verligte (enlightened) and verkrampte (narrow-minded) elements, though these days it tends to break down more between younger and older Afrikaners, farmers and city dwellers. If the choice is for a verligte approach, South Africa?and the West?might yet be able to buy a little time to try to salvage a peaceable future in the region. If the verkrampte forces prevail...
...scared, Peterson, the veteran of some 30 accidents, replied, "No, not really. If I did I think I would give it up." The fatal wreck stirred fellow drivers to demand either the closing or complete remodeling of the 56-year-old Monza course, considered by many to be too narrow and fast a track...
Southern Florida's Gold Coast, a narrow strip of sun-drenched sand and aging hotels that stretches north from Miami Beach, has fallen on bad times: the beaches have been slipping into the Atlantic and the tourists are slipping north to Disney World and south to Caribbean casinos. So some of the area's businessmen have been pressing hard for the legalization of casino gambling, a matter voters will decide in a Nov. 7 referendum...
...Olsen manages to transcend her own personal frustration to empathize with all people whose creative efforts society thwarts. Silences is more than a memoir or a narrow feminist polemic. Though the book did grow out of her own "special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly mute at having to let writing die over and over again in me," Olsen eloquently and passionately documents a spectrum of circumstances, most beyond the control of the writer, that corrupt or destroy his art. (Olsen criticizes the language's invidious bias towards the male...