Word: narrowing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dilettanti Arise. After a year at the London School of Economics, social purpose was reborn in Field. Filled with his new learning, he created a furor by denouncing capitalism, the monopoly of wealth, the "narrow-mindedness of the wealthy students at Harvard." He formally joined Norman Thomas' Socialist Party and married sympathetic Elizabeth G. Brown of Duluth. They went off to study political movements in Communist Russia and the Far East...
...first is technical accuracy. Cavalrymen did not wear dress uniforms into battle, as they do in "Buffalo Bill." Given the better part of Montana to fight in, they presumably did not pick a deep and narrow gulch, largely under water, while hordes of enterprising Sioux lay above poking out their rifles from behind many convenient rocks. An Indian is more apt to wear a battered fedora than a war bonnet. "Western Union's" Indians at least spoke Indian, or a reasonable facsimile of it, while "Buffalo Bill's" dog-warriors muttered monosyllables except for a chosen few who spoke fine...
...century American; he did a good deal of laughing at himself, knowing that he had come far in a hurry and was somewhat ludicrously unsure of where he was or where he was going. Munching a chocolate bar, drinking a Coca-Cola, the American bestrode the narrow world; what he would do next was a prime question in the minds of men everywhere...