Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their workshop and considered themselves autonomous from the hospital administrator, who often was a poorly qualified layman. The importance of the hospital today as a center for preventive medicine, research, and education has made the doctor's workshop much more of a public concern. And at some points the narrow interests of physicians may have to be subordinated to the needs of the community...
...these things together do not make saints infallible. When their intellectual outlook is narrow, they fall into all sorts of holy excesses, fanaticisms or theopathic absorption, self-torment, prudery, scrupulosity, gullibility, and morbid inability to meet the world. By the very intensity of his fidelity to the paltry ideals with which an inferior intellect may inspire him, a saint can be even more objectionable and damnable than a superficial carnal man would be in the same situation. We must judge him not sentimentally only, and not in isolation, but using our own intellectual standards, placing him in his environment...
...Divine Spark. "The lonely crowd" is part of the language, and the new burdens on the individual are discussed and decried on all sides. Not only by angry, narrow sociologists (the late C. Wright Mills) or sociology's cheap popularizer (Vance Packard), or a Marxist culture quack (Erich Fromm). Speaking for more serious observers, Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich fears that the pressures on the individual to conform and adjust may mean a drift toward collectivism and "authoritarian democracy," that man may become
Into Hospitals? Michael J. Kami, director of long-range planning for IBM, does not narrow IBM's range to the computer business, believes his firm is in "the problem-solving business"-and acts on that philosophy in his planning. Because the forward planners at A. T. & T. view the company as an all-embracing communications service instead of just a telephone operator, the company had a plan for space communications soon after Sputnik went up-and launched Telstar last year. Working on the theory that "1970 starts today," General Electric has set up a colony of 300 planners...
Leaving the romantic interest for fairer game, one might turn to James's anticipations of Gestalt psychology. The torrents of impression by which the mind is inundated at every moment produce a narrow and highly select conscious experience. This struck James as extraordinary, and he marvelled at man's routine feats of selective attention...