Word: narrowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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STRAIT AND NARROW (384 pp.)-Geoffrey Cotterell-Lippincott...
Cotterell's fourth novel (and first to be published in the U.S.) is a British Book Society choice, has sold 40,000 copies since publication. Strait and Narrow is simply the story of a self-made man, Richard Tarrant, and what Tarrant learns about himself...
Professional training in law, public health, or the sciences offers opportunities for quick advancement in "narrow" areas of government service, advised Charles R. Cherington '35, associate professor of Government. Graduate education in the social sciences as offered by the Littauer School, trains "generalists" and leads to advantageous government placement, while area training in foreign affairs, as provided by the Regional Studies Program, has also led to placement and rapid advancement. Cherington frowned, however, on the specialist schools of public administration which teach such subjects as budget compilation...
...Patient. From high above on the Peak, the white façades of California-style apartment houses and the frescoed mansions of wealthy traders looked down on the colony's business section. Hong Kong's polyglot population-Chinese, Britons, Americans, Eurasians and White Russians-swirled along the narrow, arcaded sidewalks, pausing at the intersections to thread their way through a steady stream of Citroëns and Chevrolets, Buicks and Bentleys...
...Billy never assume human complexity, and this is the greatest weakness of the play. The performance of Torin Thatcher as Claggart is an attempt to hint at a human character where, in reality, there is none. Charles Nolte is more successful as Billy because he does not exceed the narrow limits of the part. He is convincing in his simplicity. Dennis King is superb in the best conceived and written part, that of Captain Vere. His smallest gesture is sure and meaningful. King presents a lucid portrayal of a man torn between what should be and what must...