Word: chasms
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...otherwise informative article, "In 1800s, Living Was Far from Gracious," (Feb. 5) Gaston De Los Reyes praises President A. Lawrence Lowell for democraticizing Harvard's undergraduate housing policies by building the river houses. Lowell, says Mr. De Los Reyes, was "committed to ending the social chasm of the `Gold Coast' and the College housing shortage...
...separatists -- signaling the end of one era while giving no clue to the direction of the new one. The defeat of the mainstream parties seems likely to be repeated when Italians elect a new national Parliament next year. Wrote Eugenio Scalfari, editor of the Rome daily La Repubblica: "A chasm opened, and everything that for 40 years had stood for the center fell into...
...these trends have created an "industrial reserve army" -- to borrow a term from Karl Marx -- so large that a quite extraordinary and prolonged surge in output would be required to put all its members to full- time, well-paid work. Two indications of the yawning chasm between job supply and demand, in Detroit alone: in October, the Detroit Post Office handed out 20,000 applications for such jobs as clerk, sorter and letter carrier, even though it announced it would have at most a few hundred openings and that some of them would not be filled for three to five...
...good. Tolins has defined the attitudinal chasm separating gays, who think of themselves as a people with a history and culture, and kindly disposed heterosexuals who think of gays as individual mistakes of nature. But in making the family Jewish, he clutters the argument with a lot of dubious parallels to the Holocaust. At the same time, he opts for cliche comedy based on ethnic stereotypes (the Jewish mother force-feeding her son, the father showering his adult children with money) and cheap pop references (Dances with Wolves, The Mary Tyler Moore Show). He probably knows his audience...
...chasm that has opened between Clinton and the men and women who cover him is explained by more than the White House mistakes and the press's bullyboy tendencies. For one thing, this President and his young staff don't really seem to like journalists very much. On election night a photographer asked campaign strategist James Carville to move slightly so he could get a shot of the victor. Carville refused and later bragged that since the Clintonites had won the election, they "didn't need the press anymore." That feeling was apparently shared by others. Practically the first thing...