Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father could hardly give his approval to such an occupation. Art, he felt, was frivolous and narrow in comparison with religion or scientific studies. Fortunately, Henry James Sr. realized the importance of well-informed personal decision in matters of vocational choice. He readily consented to a proposal that William study with Hunt...
...beggar slams his soft young head against the hard stone. He knocks more sense into the boy than he intended to. At the first chance, Lazarillo slyly stands the old blind brute in front of a stone column, tells him he is standing at the edge of a narrow brook...
...conception which seems prevalent among students--and to some extent among the faculty--the proper function of an instructor is not to enlighten the student about matters of human matters of human significance, but instead to be an expert on more or less technical questions within a narrow field. An instructor is usually known as an expert on logical empiricism, or 20th-century Indian nationalism, or whatever, and the courses be teaches are courses on his specialty or specialties. The material taught may have a significant amount of humanistic value, but also may not, especially if the instructor treats...
...Administration, painfully conscious of the 81 electoral votes that Southern states contributed to John Kennedy's narrow win in 1960, surprised no one with its lack of enthusiasm for the commission's ideas. As early as last October, during the Oxford, Miss., riots, Bobby Kennedy had spoken up about stopping federal funds to Mississippi: "It has been given no consideration by me. Nor have I ever suggested it or recommended it." Last week an Administration official made it clear that things probably haven't changed. Said he: "I wouldn't have issued that report. It doesn...
...Venice, a huge, brightly lit red-and-white shield of the Christian Democratic Party gleams in the night; sprouting from Rome's Janiculum Hill, overlooking the Vatican, is the red-white-green flame of the tiny, powerless Fascists. From Messina to Milan last week, wide piazzas and narrow alleyways sprouted in riotous campaign colors, and echoed with the loudspeaker slogans of scudding little Fiat 600s, as Italy's 34,-300,000 voters prepared to go to the polls for the first national election in five years...