Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hopefully, Harvard will not allow itself to degenerate into an intellectual factory capable of nothing more than spewing out a myriad of narrow-minded technicians and pedants. Hopefully, the scholars who swarm into and out smoked-filled rooms to discuss the Doty Report will not fail to notice the inscription which ornaments the backs of their little black chairs--Veritas...
...MAINE. Democrats took control of the senate by a margin of 29 to 5, the same margin the G.O.P. boasted in the last session. Democrats also won the house by a narrow edge, thus capturing both houses for the first time since 1912. In Maine, the legislature elects the secretary of state, the attorney general and treasurer, and undoubtedly there will be some new faces in those places. Moreover, there will be heavy pressure on Republican Governor John H. Reed for such legislation as a higher minimum wage, expanded unemployment security and legalized Sunday sale of liquor...
...group of leading Boston-area educators have devised a $4.75 College Finding Service Kit that uses computers to narrow a student's possible choices...
...vain, for last night the Democratic Party abandoned the haze of cigar smoke for the gray glow of television. On each end of the narrow ball room, the Democrats set up ten-foot TV screens, and most of the party regulars spent the evening giued silently and domestically to them. Occasionally the President's face would spread across the screens, huge and winking, and the crowd would raise drinks in a listless rebel yell...
While prosperity has dissipated the left's enmity for capitalism, private enterprise in Europe has undergone some changes itself. It has rejected its narrow prewar devotion to low wages, high prices, restricted markets and forbidding tariffs, and is openly trying to emulate U.S. business. Instead of producing a limited number of high-cost goods for a market composed of the rich, Europe's new capitalists have created a mass consumer market based on economy-sized cars, readymade clothing, expanding paychecks and easy installment plans. In doing so, they have not only doubled production while reducing the work week...