Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...narrow sense, Lyndon Johnson could function superlatively under stress. He could rap out hard decisions, maneuver in delicate foreign squabbles, intervene effectively in complex labor disputes. But in the less tangible sphere of sustaining the nation's confidence, understanding the drift of opinion, coping with articulate critics, Johnson was all too vulnerable...
Harvard's powerful hockey team will face a relatively easy test tonight when Pennsylvania invades Watson Rink at 8 p.m. Penn, in the second year of its hockey program, lost to powerful Cornell 14-0, a team that beat Harvard by a narrow 8-4 margin...
Penn opened up a 20-point lead in the second half, but Harvard came fighting back to narrow the margin to six, two minutes from the end. Unfortunately, there wasn't enough steam in the rally and the Quakers won their first League game after losing to Princeton. Blisky and Wohl combined to hit 23 of 36 shots from the field...
...better man" whom the hero admired in youth and never quite outgrew or forgot. At the cost of his own career Passant helped struggling young people around him (including Eliot), saving them from stagnation by creating an intellectual coterie. He also preached freedom and self-expression-against the narrow restraints of provincial England in the late 1920s. Eliot's attitude toward Passant in the first book became fondly equivocal, for he served as a continual reminder that certain kinds of selflessness, though admirable, are self-destructive. Folded into this late volume, Passant is made to stand for something more...
...anti-ROTC arguments in the excellent study done by the Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee are imminently logical when evaluated in the narrow terms of academic freedom. The arguments of the anti-war, moralist group are even less practical and convincing in terms of the real-life world. Both arguments deal mostly with technicalities from a very narrow point of view rather than with the hard realities of life and the broad spectrum of our national existence...