Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rich and Poor. The Latin American theologians who developed this strange alliance of Marx and Jesus see nothing contradictory in it. For an explanation of the chasm between rich and poor, between First World and Third World, they went to Marxist analysis and decided that the problem is capitalist oppression. For a solution of its ills, they went to Christian thought and Scriptures and concluded that Christians have a spiritual mandate to struggle on the side of the downtrodden. Jesus himself, they point out, citing the fourth chapter of Luke, declared early in his public life that he had come...
...enough to slide down between classes will surely make a bang, even if he or she doesn't crash through the glass doors. Matthews Hall and the Science Center have challenging and steep bannisters that should test the mettle of any slider who looks over the edge to the chasm below...
...gates were thrown open and the crowd surged forward for a better view, nearly sweeping some onlookers over the canyon's rim. One 15-year-old who was pushed 100 ft. to the edge fell into a 5-ft.-deep crevice in rocks hanging over the chasm. Then, as Knievel's rocket disappeared below the canyon lip, hundreds of spectators began dashing for their cars or bikes, apparently caring more about beating the traffic than finding out whether Knievel had lived or died...
...white Southerners who opposed slavery, supported the Union, became Republicans during Reconstruction, rejected the Democratic Party in the 1880s and joined the Populists in the 1890s. He makes his case for a peculiar but ongoing tradition of efforts to change the South from within, linking the dissenters across the chasm of war and emancipation. (For example, Degler ties the Southern populists more to the scalawags of the 1870s than to their contemporaries, the rebellious populist farmers in Kansas or South Dakota.) Degler's 'other Southerners' people the ranks of a doubly lost cause--no less continuous than the Cause itself...
...trade unions allowed the government to carry out its "lame duck" policy, by which Heath decided not to support industries in debt no matter how important they were to an industrial region, the gap would now be a yawning chasm. As it was, the trade union activists--so hated by Heath--managed to keep some industries open by the strength of their protests. In spite of this success, the unions have had a terribly difficult time with a government that sees labor as fulfilling a profit function rather than a social function...