Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIRST DAY OF FRIDAY, by Honor Tracy. Although this light satire about an impoverished Irish vicar does not quite make it down the author's Straight and Narrow Path, it is still mad enough to make good reading...
Desert Etiquette. Those were wild years in Palestine, as the Jews and Arabs warmed up for full-scale war. Shots rang in the narrow streets of Jerusalem; machine guns chattered beyond the Judean hills. It was not time for an unarmed rabbi to go exploring in Arab country, but Glueck was never questioned about his religion. "That a Jew should wander by himself in Trans-Jordan," he says, "was so unheard...
...best swimming team in Navy's history will host the Crimson in Annapolis, and will no doubt provide much tougher competition than they did last year when Harvard gained an uncomfortably narrow eight-point victory...
...professionals in New York who really know very little about anything (including acting) only serve to underline a distinction which has to be maintained, I think, at the Loeb; the distinction between a study of dramatic works in their fullest sense (which includes staging them) and a study, with narrow scope, of professional techniques only...
...gave him a lavender Rolls-Royce with his initials on it. Harvey is among the financial backers of a small restaurant in Beverly Hills called The Bistro, and together they hold court there. Harvey likes to sit facing the walls-they are all made of mirrors. Thus his eyes, narrow as oriental slits, can see everybody who's there, including himself, and he can smooth his light brown hair without going into Joan's purse for a compact...