Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Party-and he was on the last lap of a long journey. After three decades of jail, exile and bitter fighting, Haya was at last a candidate, running openly and legally, for President of Peru. As the June 10 election date drew near, he was the favorite, but a narrow one and a man whose many enemies were closing in around him. Pressing hard are Fernando Belaúnde, 49, who narrowly lost the 1956 election, and a voice from the more distant past, ex-Dictator Manuel Odria, 64, who ruled from 1948 to 1956 and now seeks a popular...
Dodds continually speaks of the threats to life and limb that await the college president on each side of his narrow path. The faculty wants an understanding academic, the governing board wants a realistic manager. The president must maintain communication and friendliness with students and faculty, but never try to run the place on charisma alone. He must visit all areas of his university but never create the impression of snooping, or suspecting, or by-passing...
...fanlike tracery of the roof-is drenched with a multicolored light that draws the eye toward the altar and the huge Graham Sutherland tapestry (in color, opposite) that covers the north wall behind it. From the altar, the source of light is suddenly, almost theatrically apparent: ten narrow stained-glass windows, 70 ft. high, in the jogs of the saw-toothed walls. Says Spence: "These windows are like a rainbow of promise, but it is right that a worshiper should not be able to see them until he has made his Communion at the altar and turned back...
...racing championship the last two years running, and he proudly wears the rainbow-striped shirt that is the badge of the world's best cyclist. For all this, he earns $140,000 a year, owns a $100,000 California-style home in the town of Herentals, and his narrow, haughty face peers out from billboards and posters all over Europe, selling everything from beer to razor blades...
...modern technology. Note the repeated theme of blindness, and the plane that will bring annihilation to the world. Like the world, human love has no future. And little religious comfort. (The fish was an early symbol of Christian faith, now reduced-hence "few fishes.") Mirth, too, has shrunk to "narrow laughs," though the poet, like Western man himself, fondly recalls the lost gentleness of childhood ("to crawl was tender...