Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pursuit of Portraits. The paintings hung in a particular room are not necessarily, or even usually, from the narrow time period of the furniture-that would be much too confining a restriction. For the Red Room, the White House has acquired the unfinished Woodrow Wilson painted at the Conference of Versailles...
...grand design leaves room for hardly any autos at all. Local transportation will be generally restricted to electric carts, which will have their own system of cartways, forbidden to automobiles. An electric tram will serve the principal city, Avalon (Pereira staffers are now in Europe studying various types of narrow-gauge railways), and the island will be dotted with small parks within 200 or 300 feet of each other. Outdoor cafés, garden apartments and single-family houses will be designed around open plazas and courtyards, and a new hotel and yacht club will be built. Southern California Edison...
...Portuguese Guinea, Angola and Mozambique is in jeopardy. Asked Salazar: "Is the language that we teach those people superior to their dialects or not? Does the religion preached by the missionaries surpass fetishism or not? Is not belonging to a nation of civilized expression and world projection better than narrow regionalism without means for defense or progress...
...congratulated her. Youngest of nine children of a music-loving Ohio farmer, LuLu (nee Marianne Wolford) began singing professionally only a year ago, says her first act was "a bomb." She does a mean belly dance as a sideline, but finds the bumps a grind, hopes to narrow her repertory to singing and acting...
Despite all the drawbacks, both the avoidable and the unavoidable, I would still suggest you see All Gods Chillun, which is the final production at Brandeis this summer. If the production suffers because one finds it difficult to transcend narrow concerns, and see broader moral implications, it also provides a valuable commentary on that narrow concern, the "Negro problem," as an example of race prejudice in all forms. Although this summer has been dominated by the struggle of the Negro to gain justice and freedom, the issue usually seems to be a "social" or "political," and therefore impersonal, problem. This...