Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...civic spirit. It made civil rights issues suddenly vital to young middle-class men who had not previously expected to seek help from the government. It awakened many gay men, sick or well, to spiritual values. It partly bridged a widespread gap between gay men and lesbians, a chasm based on arcane feminist dialectics or simple lack of shared life-style, because those concerns seemed trivial when compared with life and death. Says Eric Marcus of San Francisco, author of Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, a new oral history of the movement: "In the mature...
...advertising from Benetton, Absolut vodka, Geffen records and Viking Penguin press. Says editor Michael Goff: "We're called Out because coming out is the one thing all gays and lesbians have in common." The problem: it may be the only thing they have in common. Out must span the chasm of gender, traditionally even wider in gay media than straight, if it is to survive...
...racial antagonisms persist, even at Harvard, and occasionally they explode. Nobody actually says anything particularly racist, but accusations of racism fly freely across the chasm. Sensitivity becomes hypersensitivity, and everyone ends up pissed...
...almost universally decry: more dependency, more wasted national and human resources, more generations of children growing up in poverty, more unproductive and unskilled citizens, more racial tension and, finally, a more polarized society in which haves and have-nots glare at each other across a widening economic and social chasm. And if that's not a national crisis, what...
...enacted specifically to apply in cases where state courts and juries could or would not convict. That move might help convince skeptical blacks that they can after all get fair treatment from the judicial system. Better late than never -- but it remains to be seen whether the racial chasm that the King case and the riots revealed and widened can be bridged...