Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...operetta tells the tale of two pairs of lovers, each divided by the chasm of class. Sailor Ralph Rackstraw and Josephine, the daughter of his ship's captain, are in love; the captain, however, has bigger plans for his daughter--he intends to marry her off to the Honorable Sir Joseph Porter, the leader of all the Queen's Navy...
...Wall was the primary division between East and West Germany, and its opening removes the main obstacle to reunification. Some well-stacked bricks with electrified wire (and a few well-placed sharpshooters) doesn't constitute a wide enough chasm to keep apart the two halves of a once-mighty European nation. The gulf which separated the Germanies--and still separates them--is membership in their respective economic and military alliances, treaties more permanent than a stack of bricks...
...quite a temptation to elevate symbols over reality, especially when you call yourself Peter Jennings or Dan Rather and you're standing in a trenchcoat next to the Wall, reporting on live network television. But the primary obstacle to reunification was never the Wall itself, but the yawning political chasm between two 40-year-old international alliances. When and if it comes, reunification will be preceded by a gradual German abrogation of the opposing supranational commitments which keep them at arm's length...
...diagnosed as having Alzheimer's disease, and Yasmin cared for her until her death in 1987. Leaming's prose can gush ("the incomparable Hermes Pan," "the fabulous Eartha Kitt") and regularly descends to write-by-the-numbers cliche. But the material is poignant, another reminder of the chasm that can exist between public images and private pain...
...people." But Gorbachev's great strength has been to take the Soviet system and its people to destinations unimagined only a few years ago. The time has come for Gorbachev to accept that there is no middle ground. As his Polish neighbors say these days, "You cannot cross a chasm in two steps...