Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lean, acerbic former Congress Party president who fell out with Nehru, formed the Praja Socialists in 1951, is now an independent. To combat this alliance, Bombay's Communist Party has put its organization at the disposal of Congress Candidate Menon: Menon's defeat-or even a narrow victory-would be the most dramatic repudiation of Nehru's aggressive socialism and left-leaning neutralism since India's independence. A smashing Menon victory would seriously dishearten Indian conservatives and measurably strengthen the pro-Communist left...
...idea: Why not go underground? A stucco house stood empty only 20 ft. from the wire. Soon shovels were biting through the cellar wall and into the sandy soil. The digging was not difficult, but only one man at a time could work at the head of the narrow tunnel; employing the classic technique of captured British soldiers who bored out of German prison camps in World War II, the others helped hand back the loose dirt, or buttressed the excavation with wooden supports. The tunnelers dug only in the daytime, so that traffic noises would drown out the sounds...
...precariously narrow ledge. From far left to far right, De Gaulle is under attack by France's politicians. Members of his own government are suspected of opposing his Algerian solution, especially Premier Michel Debre, who on the record has favored a tougher line than De Gaulle in opposing the F.L.N. and supports a French Algeria. With the French people, De Gaulle's popularity may have somewhat diminished, but he still has a powerful hold on them. He and they are locked in a special political embrace: they need him because they know that no one else stands a chance...
...Flexibility. In contrast, the groundswell trend in U.S. education is not only greater opportunity, but also less narrow specialization. Russian universities cannot match the efforts of M.I.T. and Caltech aimed at preventing graduates from becoming technologically obsolete almost overnight. At M.I.T., for example, the entire curriculum is being broadened to emphasize underlying principles, a systems approach, and even humanities. The goal: men who can roll with the future...
DeWitt is fully aware that turning out technicians is a narrow? educational goal. If the aim is "to develop applied professional skills, enabling the individual to perform specialized, functional tasks, then Soviet higher education is unquestionably a success," he says. But if, as the West believes, the aim is ''to develop a creative intellect critical of society and its values, then Soviet higher education is an obvious failure...