Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Common Market, did not receive an invitation, and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, who helped draft the treaty, was asked so late that he declined to attend. Instead, the fellow who had all the fun was the one who deserved it least. He was Charles de Gaulle, whose narrow view of Europe has probably done most to harm the Common Market and slow its growth...
Last week the Supreme Court upheld the California decision. Speaking for a narrow, five-man majority, Justice Byron R. White declared that in its decision the California Supreme Court had not forbidden Californians either to repeal fair-housing laws or to enact laws making the state "neutral." All it did was to "reasonably" conclude that Section 26 affirmed discrimination as a state-guaranteed freedom. "We are dealing with a provision which does not just repeal an existing law forbidding racial discrimination," said White. "Section 26 was intended to authorize, and does authorize, racial discrimination in the housing market...
...STUDENT GOALS. "What we want to help create is a human order which allows for and encourages meaningfulness in our experiences demanding in dependence and tolerance; a society, moving not toward a narrow orthodoxy, but expanding outward, with room for all our personal values...
...thickening smoke. Many were trampled in the stampede. Some, like Mme. Seydel, reached windows and managed to escape without serious injury. Others found windows jammed or locked and had to smash through to exterior ledges and balconies; still others clambered to neighboring rooftops. Brussels firemen threaded through the narrow old streets within ten minutes of the first alarm, but helplessly watched many people jump or burn to death before they could raise their ladders or spread their nets. "One man was transformed into a living torch before my eyes as he hesitated to leap from a high window," said Fireman...
Lorenz attacked narrow approaches to learning. "Any system has parts which are as different from the whole as a carburetor is from a car," he said...