Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pressing the Attack. Prime Minister Harold Wilson, elated by the unexpectedly narrow defeat, nonetheless pressed the attack on their lordships. He sidetracked an interparty commission on reform of the House of Lords set up last December and promised early introduction of a government bill that would cut the Lords' delaying powers to perhaps three months. "Most of its members," he said scornfully, "sit by the right of succession from some near or distant ancestor...
...when Playboy magazine heard about his predicament, Publisher Hugh Hefner's Playboy Foundation helped underwrite a habeas corpus petition. On the narrow legal ground that he was allowed to plead guilty without having been informed that he could have attacked the sodomy law constitutionally, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has just thrown out Cotner's conviction by a 2-to-l vote. He is now free, after having served three years of his sentence, and is living with his grandmother in Illinois...
...personal travails. He devotes much space to his trips to post-revolutionary Russia in 1920 and his disillusionment there: "Cruelty, poverty, suspicion, persecution, formed the very air we breathed ... I felt that everything that I valued in human life was being destroyed in the interests of a glib and narrow philosophy." Of his stay in prerevolutionary China in 1920-21, he writes: "It must be said that bad government seems somewhat less disastrous in China than it would be in a European nation, but this is perhaps a superficial impression which time may correct...
...Communist left assembled three years ago to oppose De Gaulle in the presidential elections, the F.G.D.S. has hung onto anti-Gaullism as one of its few unifying principles. Its member groups-Guy Mollet's Socialists (74 seats), the Radicals (25) and the Convention (18)-still think more in narrow party terms than of broader federation concepts. Workers make up the main following of the F.G.D.S. With Mitterrand's appeal waning, the Federation may lose some seats...
...process; on a single painting he may use as many as ten different spray guns, apply dozens of different coats. When completed, the painting gives a viewer the sensation of gazing into a shimmering, bottomless sea. To dramatize the effect, Olitski often moors his canvas to earth with emphatic narrow bands of paint along the edges, which form a frame within a frame...