Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increased chance to expand her interests beyond herself. A variety of opportunities which were formerly labelled "Harvard only" would open before her in the House-oriented activities. As her specifically "intellectual" endeavors became intermingled more thoroughly in her daily routine, the frightening gap between education and life might narrow a little. The resident families would provide her with encouraging examples of professional women who are also excellent wives and mothers and of what she is just as anxious to find, professional men who support their wives' careers with interest and understanding...
...admitted, generalizing on the various group personalities he has observed: "My general impression is that boys with athletic abilities and interests tend to be more broad-minded and have a greater breadth of interests than members of other groups. The self-conscious intellectuals, for example, tend to be more narrow and restricted in their interests, and are usually more arrogant in their approach to problems than are the athletes...
...effort for intellectual progress. "Afterward," Bender points out, "they found out that the intellectuals, in quotes, were not really as smart as they thought and that the non-intellectuals, in quotes, were really quite valuable after all." Their experiment resulted in a lop-sided student body of "narrow intellectuals," and the school's appeal declined so much that five years ago the administration had trouble finding enough students to fill its quotas...
Partly as a result of the "shining example" of the Chicago experiment, and partly from his own experience, Bender is led to make comments such as "The A student is very often quite stupid," and, "An awful lot of thick and narrow students grind...
...stones, at first without mortar, to test their fit to the new site. After corrections for the contours of the old site and for the distortions caused by centuries of settling, the walls slowly rose, set this time in a thin layer of mortar. When they reached the high narrow windows, everything fitted perfectly...