Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan's Pace Gallery, a white box beams a ruby red light into a corner, then unmasks itself mechanically so that the dot of light draws itself around the room into a full square. Then the line undraws itself back into a red dot. In another room, a narrow wavy red line bobbles against the four walls simultaneously, producing a giant square of four red lines that imprints itself on the spectators as they walk between the wall and light source. In the last room, another homage to the square is created by a bold six-inch-wide band...
...these relationships are a barrier "separating the two halves of his life." To become a whole man on his own terms he enlists in the army. The move may seem rather quaint to some readers today-but Jonas says that to end his adolescence, he must break with his narrow past and find the courage to fight for his own future...
Poor Brown went from a narrow defeat by Rhode Island to a larger loss to Penn to a rout by Yale. In the process the few reliable veterans the Bruins could count on sustained injuries. Now rookie Coach Len Jardine's squad, one notch below hapless, is called on to face undefeated Dartmouth. About all the Bruins, in turn, can call on is Providence, but if I happened to be there I'd stay clear of the football stadium. A merciful score would...
Strapped to the runner of a helicopter, Che's body was then flown to Valle Grande, a dirt-poor, two-centuryold town of 7,000 people set in rolling hills some 3,000 ft. high. At the airport, it was loaded into a truck and whisked down the narrow dirt and cobblestone streets to the town's Señor de Malta Hospital, run by German Dominican sisters. There four men in white and a nun went to work on Che, opening an incision in his neck for embalming fluid and washing his body. A man in civilian...
Unfettered by a narrow churchly agenda, delegates to the lay congress were in a mood to tackle more down-to-earth problems. The spirit of the meeting was set by the keynote address of Steering Committee Secretary Dr. Thorn Kerstiens. "We must put questions to the theologians which often coincide with those put by men who are not Christians," he said. "Modern man wants to see things from the viewpoint of his daily existence." As an example, Kerstiens asked delegates to consider such questions as, "What should be our attitude towards revolutionary movements?", and "Is racial discrimination...