Word: chasms
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...lamentations about how awful work is prompt an answering wail from the management side of the chasm: nobody wants to work any more. As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead. About the only good words for it now emanate from Ronald Reagan and certain beer commercials. Those ads are splendidly mythic playlets, romantic idealizations of men in groups who blast through mountains or pour plumingly molten steel in factories, the work all grit and grin. Then...
...most Anglophilic time in our history. It is a magazine to be read in a mock-British accent, or at least some boarding school equivalent--and Arlen is something of the quintessential New Yorker writer. It seems odd, then, to see him turn his meticulous attention to the quintessential chasm in American taste--namely television--but the results are often brilliant. Arlen doesn't so much watch television as he holds court with it. In the end, television never had it so good...
...equal smiles; so it should hardly shock the system to learn that, on the bulk of the evidence, official and personal, the American social scene is less mixed now than ever. In the March issue of FORTUNE, Roger Wilkins sees blacks and whites separated by a widening "social chasm." Recent reports of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and of the National Urban League concur...
...good joke, a long cry and a stiff drink, sometimes all at once. Early Davies songs such as A Well Respected Man and Dedicated Follower of Fashion were sardonic assaults on both sides of what was then called the generation gap and what now seems less like a chasm than a split but sewable seam...
...dramatically, did "The Two Cultures," the title of a 1959 Cambridge lecture. Snow decried the willful ignorance of humanists about science and the chasm between arts and technology. The speech drew worldwide attention, including a scathing ad hominem attack by Cambridge Don F.R. Leavis. Snow's argument no longer seems controversial because it has been so generally accepted: it is important for humanists and everyone else to know what scientists are doing...