Word: chasms
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...attack on Professor Levine for his 'Jewish studies' certainly widened "the chasm between Blacks and whites" here. Lack of student input, which Rothschild called "the essence of the protest", has nothing to do with racism. Students don't have a major voice in running any part of the University...
...alleged overreaction. Berkovitz might do himself good to acquaint himself with Black people, Black concerns and Black needs before he assumes to speak for their "true needs." His insensitivity, though, is not atypical. Having spent four years at this campus, I find it impossible not to conclude that the chasm between Blacks and whites here owes much more to white insensitivity (re: racism) than to any Black "overreaction." Matthew Rothschild
...habits of political thought run in different channels. For us, the government, however much we grumble about it, is an unmistakable expression of our aspirations, fears and confusions as a nation. Our difficulty in seeing things as Solzhenitsyn wants us to see them is one more sign of the chasm between our society, with all its failings, and the society of Solzhenitsyn's long-suffering compatriots...
Rosa's frustration is the white man's burden in South Africa. Their guilt, anger and fear creates an emotional chasm between races far more disturbing than the state-imposed physical separation. Blacks reject the whites who rejected them, and both are disenfranchised...
Wellston, Ohio, a town of 6,000, 75 miles southeast of Columbus, is short on cash and long on potholes; about 10,000 of them pit Wellston's 44 miles of streets. When former Police Chief Max Downard burst a tire in a particularly jagged chasm, he jokingly proposed to Mayor Harold Souders that the town sell its potholes to help raise the $70,000 needed to repair last winter's wear and tear. After the suggestion was reported in the paper, says Souders, "a woman walked in with a check for two potholes." Then another woman came...