Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their rates (average fare from one town to the next: 12?) that the maulers refuse to move until every seat is filled-then stop at nothing in order to beat the competition for the passengers waiting in the next town. Ignoring traffic laws, they steam down the center of narrow highways at 60 m.p.h. or more, bully their way through city traffic by such tactics as pulling into the path of oncoming cars, cut across traffic lanes at will to stop for passengers. Yet they are part of the very fabric of society, and last week, when the Lagos city...
...many Supreme Court decisions breed more confusion than clarification? Because the court, unlike a legislature, is charged with laying down broad principles based on the narrow facts of particular cases. And as Mr. Justice Holmes put it, "Hard cases make bad law." Last week they made confusing law in the court's flurry of reapportionment decisions (see THE NATION), and in its silent refusal to review a crucial California case involving the inadmissibility of voluntary confessions-currently the most confusing issue in U.S. criminal...
...York's Aqueduct track. Ridden by Johnny Sellers and third choice of the bettors at 5-2, Mrs. Ben Cohen's plucky colt, born with a slightly deformed rear leg, rallied from fourth place in the stretch to beat Preakness Winner Tom Rolfe by a narrow neck...
Early in their history, the Japanese learned to conserve the natural mate rials of their narrow archipelago, and their arts reflect this economy. A rice bowl, a fob (or netsuke), a lantern, kites and kimonos-each became a masterpiece of workmanship. In fact, not until the late 19th century was there even a word for fine arts, as opposed to mingei, or folk skills. As Manhattan's Asia House Gallery currently shows (see opposite page), the roots of Japanese art lie deep in its tradition of anonymous craftsmanship...
...Japan was so strict that lords could even dictate what color and what kind of clothing their serfs could wear. Craftsmen were restricted to certain specialized skills, such as carving, lacquering, throwing clay, screening silk. And during lifetimes of limited expression, they became surpassing experts at their narrow specialty. For example, etna, often painted reliefs of white horses, were Shinto offerings that recall live horses dedicated to the god spirit Kami, who rode a sacred horse while blessing his worshipers. Ema horses were bought for a song and were left in temples; but they were executed with such extraordinary craftsmanship...