Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press freedom' shouted at the Commission through so many of its hearings," protested that it had no "desire to create a protected haven or storm shelter for Canadian periodicals, and least of all a sanctuary for mediocrity." It declared "that a Canadian periodical press given to a narrow, bigoted nationalism would not be worth salvation." But in its proposals to end the "unfair" threat from the U.S. periodicals that comprise 75% of the magazines Canada reads, the Commission made recommendations that the Winnipeg Free Press described as "discriminatory, protectionist and narrowly nationalistic." Items...
Along its narrow fairways, deep traps snare drives with the slightest hook. Around its undulating greens, bunkers catch approach shots with the smallest error. Golf Course Architect Robert Trent Jones fondly calls it "the greatest test of championship golf in the world." But to the 150 golfers who teed off in gusty winds last week to start the 61st U.S. Open, one of golf's most coveted prizes, Jones's 6,907-yd. Oakland Hills course in Birmingham, Mich., was simply "the Monster...
...Jung, the systems constructed by his rivals were narrow-gauge, "nothing-but" explanations of human behavior and aspirations, which reduced man's most numinous visions to sordid sex symbols and shrank his soul to the vanishing point. Jung posed bolder concepts-reaching for the ultimate limits of the universe and of man's relationship to his God or gods...
Although German TV has sometimes been plagued by bureaucratic squabbling, it is locally run and self-regulated, might well serve as a model of what American television could be if its potential strength were not sapped away by lampreys, leeches and narrow-lapel orchids...
...their horizons were broader, the new Texans had some of their fathers' narrow wisdom about them. They knew how to make credit work and work again. For them, the real joy of business was the excitement of the risk and the satisfaction of pulling off a deal. And with an almost Calvinistic compulsion, they all drove themselves to work, work, work-even after they had made more money than they could ever personally use. "We are obligated to do something useful," says Clint Murchison Jr., "and the most useful thing I can do is be in business. The most...