Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down the baton as $26,000-a-year leader of the "100% organized" Chicago Local 10 of the American Federation of Musicians, a podium he had occupied for 40 stormy years. Near the end of his 45-minute farewell, the old union dragon who lost his job by a narrow 95 votes in a recent election glanced up at a portrait of himself on the wall, sniffed tentatively and dissolved into tears on the ever-ready shoulder of Toastmaster George Jessel. Jessel, whose tear threshold is lower still, joined sympathetically in the sobs: "I can stand to see a woman...
...minimized the contribution which the Italians of the Renaissance made to the rebirth of tragedy. While they rediscovered the important role of music in Greek drama, they retained a "demand for confining music within narrow banda." Their use of Greek ideas was almost entirely restricted to technical matters; they thus "suffered from an erroneous conception of the tragic...
...most encouraging to see the evident conciliation taking place in the Roman Catholic Church in regard to the "Separated Brethren." Now we Protestants must take a closer look at ourselves to see if we will use and have used the mind and spirit of Christ instead of narrow provincialism in our dealings with Rome and with one another. (THE REV.) RICHARD PARKER YAPLE...
Pope John's view of today's world owes little to the long-cherished Augustinian conception of it as divided into the City of God and the City of Man. To John, the church is not an exclusive club with its own narrow rules but a mother who must follow man into the mud as well as the sky. "It is the church that must bring Christ to the world," he said in a recent radio message. That is a never-ending task, to be attempted at a time when the world presents far more formidable obstacles to Christianity than...
...spot on the long, narrow island is more than 40 miles from the sea; it is an easy if unwilling subject for high-flying U25 slanting their cameras on target from offshore. A single run along its spine rolls out the island on film like a topographical map Supersonic jets scooting in at low titude can roar over the horizon, photograph anything of interest, and be out to sea again in a total of five minutes...