Word: chasm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cummings began by reading from his own "him," and discussed the character of him as comparable to the artist of today. This artist is seen as "impelled by a fidelity to his own values," a man creating across the chasm of his individuality. "A poet," Cummings said, "is one who has solved the depths of horror to defend the sunbeams of architecture with his life...
March to the East. Brutal as any contrast of geography or industry is the cultural chasm between Bolivia's Indians and the whites and mestizos of the cities. The Indians, the vast majority of Bolivia's 3,200,000 inhabitants, live quite outside the national economy, even speaking Aymara or Quechua instead of Spanish. At home on the high, forbidding plateau since before the time of the Incas, they have developed oversize lungs to be able to live and work, dance madly and play reed pipes, get drunk and breed children in the cold, thin air. Their wants...
Closer, Not Farther. In Pennsylvania, Governor John Fine said: "I am getting closer and closer to Eisenhower." Then he added quickly: "The chasm between me and Taft is not broadening." But as Fine talked, he seemed to be listing noticeably Ikeward. He found the argument that Taft can't win "has been most devastating . . . We've got a lot of people who, after 20 long years, don't want to take any risk at all." He mused at some length about a possibility: "If I should declare for Eisenhower, I think that the Taft people would feel...
...Crack to Chasm? For this week the party ordered Reggio Emilia's Red-run labor unions to go out on a 24-hour "anti-traitors general strike." When support for the strike appeared dubious, it was postponed. The party organ, Unita, cried: "For every two traitors who leave, 2,000 new members join...
...sounded more than a bit like whistling in an unplumbed dark. Magnani and Cucchi were symptoms of party dissension, which is still largely subsurface. They were a crack that could become a chasm, with effects of unforeseeable consequence. The two heretics, it was said, would next issue a manifesto for an independent Italian Communist Party. Already, in the heart of the country's Red Belt, they had adherents. On Reggio Emilia's grey stone walks were chalked: "Long live Valdo and Aldo...