Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest research has "narrowed the chasm separating humans from their evolutionary predecessors," Devore said, "Chimps, for example, exhibit behavior which is uncannily human. They practice learned cultural traditions, and show the beginnings of sharing and division of labor...
...could well be that the existing French government is underestimating the depth of the chasm splitting those who labor and those who reap the benefits of the laborers' efforts. If those in power wish to avert another revolution at some point in the future, they must acknowledge the fact that economic forces in France are not yet static and that the old justifications for capitalism are losing their applicability. As the ineluctable economic law of increasing returns to scale mandates larger corporations and more monopolies in the name of efficiency, it seems increasingly unreasonable to allow so much power...
...great detail, the show is a dramatic reminder of how vital a contribution Dada and surrealism made to the modernist imagination. No painting or poetry had been so resolutely and bitterly antiauthoritarian. Dada was the child of trauma; the first World War, that cultural chasm, had revealed - in the sheer incapacity of words to convey its degree of lethal absurdity - the extent to which language itself was owned by the officer classes of Europe...
Indira turns a rift into a chasm...
...rift turned into unbridgeable chasm among the Congress leadership last week, many Indians were accusing Mrs. Gandhi of ruthlessly sacrificing the party that had ruled India uninterruptedly from 1947 to 1977. The immediate beneficiaries of Congress's quarrel were Prime Minister Desai and his Janata Party, which had overwhelmingly profited in the March elections from Mrs. Gandhi's soaring unpopularity. Most observers believed that Congress would gradually regain much of its former strength after it scuttled Mrs. Gandhi and renounced her dictatorial ways. But as the February elections approach in four states traditionally ruled by Congress, the party...