Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relatively close vote indicates no new pronounced dissension within the Faculty, but rather a new willingness to bring old differences out into the open. In the future, this willingness to argue and vote without unanimity may cut either way, but it is far better that the Faculty reach a narrow conclusion than, as in the case of ROTC, a unanimous confusion...
Small-Town Morality. In sophisticated Athens, such sermonizing is glumly greeted. Few politicians from other parties have joined the colonels since their coup. Most refer to them as steno-kephalos, or narrow heads. Athens wits insist that Nikolaos Makarezos was selected to oversee the economy as Minister of Coordination because he was the colonel who knew how to add and subtract. Retired diplomat and Nobel laureate Georges S. Seferiades laments the "state of enforced torpor." But out in the stony, sun-washed countryside beyond Athens, the colonels' austerities are better received...
...Gleam is a stately, classical sinfonietta that can be read-rather like a simplified musical score-from top to bottom. It opens with a four-note theme of palest yellows made of three narrow stripes and followed by a wider one-much like the "V for Victory" opening of Beethoven's Fifth. However, Noland's sprightlier pastorale modulates into a green andante, followed by an adagio of cornsilk white, a reprise of mint, and a coda built around a bland band of airy, spring-sky blue...
...action came after a four-hour meeting sponsored by SDS during which a proposal to occupy University Hall immediately was three times defeated by narrow margins...
Keller fell by a narrow 5-4 decision to Anthony Kestler of Columbia in a playoff bout. Cetrulo also lost by a 5-4 margin, bowing to Norman Braslow of Penn in another playoff contest. Their performances earned the two Crimson fencers positions on the All-American first team...