Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Provincialism is, of course, an attitude-and attitudes are relative. A man can be provincial in the biggest city or cosmopolitan in the smallest. But provincialism in the old pejorative sense-blindness and insensitivity to all beyond a narrow purview-is practically disappearing before the realities of modern U.S. life. It is hard to be narrow when TV shows yesterday's battles in Viet Nam, when one out of five Americans moves each year, when the small-towner can often afford the same cars for his garage or the same clothes for his wife (Norells or Balenciagas...
...superior view of New York-or even of Chicago, St. Louis or San Francisco-Peoria was so long the butt of jokes because it seemed to embody that gibing epithet-provincial. The word was both an accusation and an insult, for everyone with a dictionary knew that it means "narrow, limited, insular, unsophisticated" and denotes "exclusive or overwhelming devotion to one's province." The description hardly fits modern Peoria-nor does it apply to the vast areas of the U.S. that once fell under its indictment. The cities and towns of America still maintain the pride of place that...
...Minh's army has been trying to mount the attack since July, when the 324B became the first northern division to infiltrate across the narrow Demilitarized Zone-and, thanks to quick Marine action, the first northern division to be driven back across the border of the DMZ. In the beginning, according to U.S. intelligence reports, the Communists planned an outright invasion of the border province of Quang Tri. But the aggressive probing of Operations Hastings and Prairie has apparently thrown Hanoi's timing off. In the past month, more and more Marines have been shifted northward...
...facing inquisition, the Right Rev. James A. Pike, who recently quit as bishop of California, the central issue is "whether the Episcopal Church confines itself to a narrow interpretation of theology or allows its traditional wide range of freedom in seeking the truth." To Bishop Henry I. Louttit of south Florida, the man pressing for the trial, the issue is whether the church can tolerate within its ranks a bishop who has denied such fundamental dogmas as the Virgin Birth. "We want him to resign the episcopate," Louttit says. "The common word is unfrocked. I want him to admit that...
Government aid to research is not bad in itself, but the aid has been channelled through "operational" agencies such as the C.I.A. that fit the research to their own narrow aims. The researchers also object to having their names attached to organizations carrying out clandestine and sometimes violent operations. The Foundation for the Social Sciences would protect academic independence--and academic reputations--by guaranteeing noninterference by other government agencies...