The work of these almost-winners certainly merits some recognition outside of narrow professional circles.
The problem is that this horde of authorities is drawn from a narrow professional milieu.
Or, more subtly, maybe it's an expression of preferences in their narrow professional role.
His friend Felix Martin understood Stewart's urge to leave academia: "He's garrulous, he likes people, he likes approbation from the crowd, from other people, and he's not a narrow professional".
Since the early 1980s, the place has been home to a rotating cast of artists and artisans, though in recent years that narrow professional scope has widened to include engineers, social workers and city employees.
To be part of an exciting development is something I've been privileged to be and also I think another respect in which I have been fortunate is that this subject is one that does attract interest beyond the narrow professional community and I genuinely believe the key ideas can be put over in a non-technical way.
Third, he is steeped in history - not in the narrow professional sphere, since his formal career was never allowed to take off, but in the sense that every facet of his present existence is constantly examined in the light of parallel attitudes and experiences in the past.
Teal organization: A new kind of organization designed to enable "whole" individuals (not narrow professional selves) to self-organize and self-manage to achieve an organic organizational purpose (determined not through hierarchical planning but incrementally, responsively, and from the bottom up).
We avoid engaging in even the most minimal outreach efforts aimed at affecting change beyond our narrow professional realm.
To add insult to injury, when it came time for publication, the three-volume work was so massive (more than 2,000 pages) and its audience so narrow (professional mathematicians) that it was initially published at a loss of 600 pounds, 300 of which was paid by Cambridge University Press, 200 by the Royal Society of London, and 50 apiece by Whitehead and Russell themselves.
