Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many Eastern schools, such as Swarthmore, are practicing the utmost in narrow-mindedness in their refusal of such Western students. More noteworthy, however, is the fact that, in their endeavors to retain so-called Eastern superiority and prestige, they are only cheating themselves...
...first night in Paris, Jackie was dressed, coifed and made up as elaborately as any princess. When she emerged from her bedroom at the Palais des Affaires Etrangeres, she was magnificent in a narrow, pink-and-white straw-lace gown and a swooping 14th century hairdo with a fake topknot. Even John Kennedy, a man who is not notably attentive to the nuances of fashion, was frankly impressed. "Well," he said, "I'm dazzled...
...second room the decorations are more elaborate. One wall is painted in the vivid colors of a stage, with tall, narrow side doors standing ajar, and leering comic masks peeking through small windows. Large central openings show gardenlike vistas. On top of the stage are small, blue glass vessels. Perspective and brushwork are so skilled that the scene has startling depth...
...built anything worthwhile," exclaimed Le Corbusier when, in the early 1930s, he was first confronted with these extraordinary churches, with their rounded, curving walls that follow the turning of the roads, their thick, often windowless outer shells looking like the ramparts of an ancient fortification, their arches spanning across narrow alleyways, and topped with strange pigeon-coop bell towers...
Concentrating on such dry fare as course papers, it seems to me, means abandoning a premise that the late Dan Frost operated on when he started the Journal: that most courses and tutorials at Harvard present stylized, narrow, and sectarian approaches to their material, and that a publication like the Journal ought to give students a chance to transcend the limitations of course writing. What the capable papers in the May issue--with the possible exception of Campbell's--badly lack is freshness, the freshness that comes when people stop thinking about external requirements and write about things they...