Word: chasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Within 20 minutes the road suddenly veers to the left, and the earth seems to fall away abruptly into a bottomless chasm. Black craggy walls slope sharply down into the bowels of this deep crater, where shiny steel skyscrapers beckon mystically in the clear sunny air. Spread out below and beyond, extending almost to the snow-capped Andean peaks in the distance, sparkles La Paz, a booming city seemingly dropped from space into a lunar landscape...
...Spain the generations are separated not by a gap but a chasm. There seems to be no bridge at all between those Spaniards born after the Civil War, who hope to slowly modernize the country, and those born before it, who adhere to the rigid ideals of 81-year-old Dictator Francisco Franco. In the wake of the assassination of President Luis Carrero Blanco by Basque extremists last month, the chasm seems likely to grow wider still...
...CHANGE, returning students will note, is the huge hole between Widener and Lamont. The day after Commencement, the contractors began digging a chasm for the Pusey Library. A trio of photographers and Amanda Bennett describe the changes on page...
Whether that chasm has now been closed for good is an open question, the answer to which may become apparent in the next few months...
...reporting of the past few years has been done by only a handful of people. Hordes of newsmen descended upon Vietnam in the early 1960s as American involvement deepened, but only one of them--David Halberstam, then with the New York Times--had the courage to report that a chasm lay between the truth and the Pentagon's reported story...