Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...genuinely creative comedians, interested more, as Hardy once said, in "human appeal" than in "straight clownish antics," they teamed up in 1927, and as bumblingly chivalrous misfits strove ineffectually to solve hopeless problems (e.g., while struggling to get a grand piano over a narrow suspension bridge across a horrifying chasm between two Alpine peaks, they would encounter, midway, a gorilla). Hardy was the master of mime and the bowler-bouncing doubletake, and, faced with Laurel's witless works, the withering glare. But it was brink-of-tears Laurel (who has also suffered a stroke) who somehow, always looking miserable...
...Washington National Airport this week, an ear-tingling ig-gun salute heralded the arrival of the man who fitfully straddles the chasm between the Soviet's open cynicism and the Western world's open hand. Jawaharlal Nehru, idolized leader of India's millions and to many minds the spokesman for the yearnings (as well as fiery passions) of most Asians and Africans, had come at Dwight Eisenbower's invitation for his first visit to the U.S. since...
...probably not the answer for Jackson, Tennessee, or Jacksonville, Florida. And one action that may successfully and painlessly bring integration to white and Negro high school students in an urban community may very well instigate racial hatred and violence in a rural area. The task of bridging the chasm between two vastly separate, and in most places vastly unequal, educational systems demands slow and careful planning on the local level. It is the community that knows best the community's problems, and it is here that the moderates must take their stand...
...Chasm. Measuring man's religions with this rule, Toynbee finds the modern world riven by a gulf even deeper and wider than that between the Communist and non-Communist worlds, namely, the chasm between "the whole Judaic group of ideologies and religions" on the one hand and the "Buddhaic group" (Hinduism, the Mahayana and Hinayana forms of Buddhism) on the other. For the East, like ancient Greece, sees history as cyclical, recurrent, and hence irrelevant, while Christianity, Judaism and Islam see it governed by Intellect and Will, i.e., God. But in assigning history this divine importance, they "have reopened...
...Bill Alexander's whole ministry. "When Jesus walked the earth, people didn't line up in long rows to hear him." he said last week. "They gathered around him. So in our church we are bringing the congregation around the preacher . . . There shouldn't be any chasm between a preacher and the people. I'm no special holy person. I'm the same kind of guy as you are. The only difference is that I've taken as my profession the promotion of Christianity...