Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presents the terrifying atmosphere pervading northern Israeli kibbutz life, but fails to incorporate any political-historical context (by perhaps a lead-in article summarizing the general situation) for interpreting the author's personalized, emotional reflections and his implicitly biased conceptions of the "enemy" with the proper perspective. Feldstein's narrow and distorted portrayal of the Palestinian is perhaps indicative of his general misunderstanding of the entire political situation, a situation that appears only to him as an "unfathomable chess game...
...Brezhnev's driving. I presented him with a dark blue Lincoln Continental. He got behind the wheel. The head of my Secret Service detail went pale as I climbed in and we took off down one of the narrow roads that run around the perimeter of Camp David. At one point there is a very steep slope with a sign at the top reading, "Slow, Dangerous Curve." Even driving a golf cart down it, I had to use the brakes in order to avoid going off the road. Brezhnev was driving more than 50 miles an hour...
Dayan's visit did not, however, narrow the U.S.-Israeli disagreement over the wording of the declaration of principles. In the end, Israel may accept some version of the phrase recognizing the Palestinians' "right to participation in the determination of their own future," but it still rejects such phrases as "Palestinian problem in all its aspects" or "legitimate rights of the Palestinian people" on the ground that such words imply a Palestinian state on the West Bank−a concept that is anathema to Jerusalem. All in all, the two sides remained uncomfortably far apart...
...College, business at the UHS mental health facilities has been booming recently, library circulation of books has doubled, and the number of pre-meds and pre-laws among us is rising to frightening proportions. Supposedly, these trends among students signal a change from romantic, carefree idealists to competitive, narrow-minded pre-professionals. But for many, or even most of us, career-planning, just like taking a leave of absence, may be no more than a response to indecision, uncertainty, or lack of fulfillment. The more we worry about the meaning of our future, the more ambitious we seem...
...golfers circumnavigated the 6647-yard, par-70 layout in 674 strokes for the two-day, 36-hole New England NCAA Qualifying Tournament. They finished sixth in the 12-school field. Yale, which went into Friday's round with a 13-stroke lead, continued to chart a straight and narrow course over its home 18, winning the tourney with a 636 team aggregate. The Elis thus earned a berth in the NCAAs, which will be held at Eugene, Ore., this June...