Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Worse still is the distortion of what happened at the trial. The script wildly and unjustly caricatures the fundamentalists as vicious and narrow-minded hypocrites, just as wildly and unwisely idealizes their opponents, as personified in Darrow. Actually, the fundamentalist position, even when carried to the extreme that Bryan struck when he denied that man is a mammal, is scarcely more absurd and profitless than the shallow scientism that the picture offers as a substitute for religious faith and experience...
...week's climax came on Kennedy's own home grounds of Boston. Wet confetti showered on Pat and Dick, cheers echoed through the damp, narrow streets from Bostonians lined six to eight deep, and many broke ranks to chase after his car. Police numbered the throng at an extravagant 250,000, yet it was undoubtedly the biggest street turnout anywhere in the campaign...
Parking on Mill St., however, will have to be limited to one side of the street at once, as the space left when cars are parked on both sides is too narrow to allow the entrance of a fire truck, Whitlock declared...
Lunch & Ice. They got off their hands for Marshal Tito, whose rambling speech, carefully trod the narrow Titoist line that espoused support of Khrushchev-style disarmament and policies, while reserving for himself a role of conciliator between East and West...
...previous books (The Straight and Narrow Path, Silk Hats and No Breakfast), Author Tracy has savaged Irish clergymen and patriots, Spanish politicians and bureaucrats. In her new locale, the lush, sun-smitten Caribbean, she lays about her with equal ferocity, whacking British do-gooders and culture vultures, U.S. tourists "with their national air of being permanently engaged in relief work," and the swaggering, capering West Indians, who are lambasted as fake primitives, phony intellectuals and adult delinquents...