Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What they saw was a thin, balding man of 55 who looked more like a bank clerk than a butcher: a thin mouth between protruding ears, a long, narrow nose, deep set blue eyes, a high, often wrinkled brow. He looked puny beside two burly,, blue clad Israeli policemen. When he stood, he resembled a stork more than a soldier...
Hesburgh aims to break free of any narrow Catholic mold-yet retain the "moral dimension" of Catholic teaching. "This moral belief," says he, "is simply the dignity of man as a child of God. All branches of knowledge are seen as being of service to man." Notre Dame's business school, for example, has a separate course on business ethics. In English classes, famed Professor Frank O'Malley focuses on such themes as the nature of suffering. Hesburgh himself is particularly interested in science: "I don't sit around worrying that tomorrow science is going to come...
...bond issue for programs ranging from new street lights to a planetarium, an improved salary schedule for city officials-and, importantly, a happy way of rallying businessmen and newspapers to his causes. Conceding that Lindenbusch stood to lose by at least 25,000 votes-a margin they hoped would narrow as the G.O.P. gained momentum in the years ahead-the Republicans brought in some outside political muscle. Arizona's Barry Goldwater helped kick off Lindenbusch's campaign. Into St. Louis came Jack Stiles, who directed the G.O.P. national registration drive last year, and Assistant National Committee Chairman Clare...
...baffling to the modern mind. Homeric life was not merely lived but ceremoniously acted out within a complex web of obligations linking gods and men in fatal and final patterns. There is a strong sense of reality in the Homeric world; the poet had a peasant's narrow eye for each man's just portion and place at table. This apparently simple world was ruled by a supernatural order; divine justice, immediate and dramatic, awaited "those who would not think straight nor behave." Odysseus himself never failed to pay his sacrificial obligations to Zeus. The Spartan simplicity...
After defending England's "nuclear contribution," Macmillan stated, "The first for us to accept, therefore, is that our political ideas must never be national- in the narrow sense. It is no longer right to consider policies exclusively in to the United States or Britain. . . . This means a revolution in our political thought...