Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solid backing of the South and scattered support in the West, Johnson, at the time of his announcement last week, could count up some 500 first-ballot votes toward the 761 needed to win the nomination?but Jack Kennedy could count well beyond 600. Arithmetically, the gap seemed fairly narrow. Strategically, it was enormous...
People flocked to his narrow Regency house in London or his squirish estate in Buckinghamshire and were dazzled by his private charm. In private or public there was no holding his mind or braking his tongue. He railed against his own party for not backing intervention against Spain's Franco, at one point was suspended from the House. With the coming of war, his was one of the first voices to call Winston Churchill to lead a national government, but in the midst of Britain's finest hour, he denounced the great man as "suffering from petrified adolescence...
...their religious life." But he urged the Dominicans to "go up there from time to time. Let them allow you to go up as a reward for those who have been good boys." Presumably to make it more rewarding, he has made the doors leading onto the roof exceptionally narrow...
...floors consist of 100 cells in a double row of matchboxes-one to a monk. Each is a narrow, barely furnished room of white granular cement applied with a high-pressure hose; each is 7 ft. 5 in. high (Corbusier's standard human measure-the height of a man with his arms raised); each has its own balcony, separated from its neighbor by solid concrete partitions. Monks reach their cells from the lower floors by means of a corridor with walls that grow increasingly somber as the men approach their devotional solitude...
...meeting this Arab prince!"). But it is suffused with his love for the law, that towering edifice which is "all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling." Frankfurter lays down the axiom that "the worst public servants are narrow-minded lawyers, and the best are broad-minded lawyers." He neglects to say who should make the determination. But readers may feel that at least one man would be cheerfully willing to try: Felix Frankfurter...