Word: chasms
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...great detail, the show is a dramatic reminder of how vital a contribution Dada and surrealism made to the modernist imagination. No painting or poetry had been so resolutely and bitterly antiauthoritarian. Dada was the child of trauma; the first World War, that cultural chasm, had revealed - in the sheer incapacity of words to convey its degree of lethal absurdity - the extent to which language itself was owned by the officer classes of Europe...
Indira turns a rift into a chasm...
...rift turned into unbridgeable chasm among the Congress leadership last week, many Indians were accusing Mrs. Gandhi of ruthlessly sacrificing the party that had ruled India uninterruptedly from 1947 to 1977. The immediate beneficiaries of Congress's quarrel were Prime Minister Desai and his Janata Party, which had overwhelmingly profited in the March elections from Mrs. Gandhi's soaring unpopularity. Most observers believed that Congress would gradually regain much of its former strength after it scuttled Mrs. Gandhi and renounced her dictatorial ways. But as the February elections approach in four states traditionally ruled by Congress, the party...
...crack in France's leftist alliance has turned into a chasm. Last week the Communists announced that in the next few months they would hold 25,000 mass meetings?at a cost of $2 million ?to "explain" the sins of the Socialist Party to French voters. Abandoning their earlier strategy of silence about the split, the Socialists are busy turning out books and pamphlets defending their position. Both sides refuse to compromise on the contentious issue of how much of French industry should be nationalized under the common program of a leftist government (TIME, Oct. 10). Declared Socialist Leader...
...British to be self-pitying, Daniel is nonetheless self-regarding to a pathological degree. He looks at himself and his contemporaries and sees failure. "We had all our values wrong," he tells his current actress girl friend. "We expected too much. Trusted too much. There's a great chasm in twentieth-century history. A frontier. Whether you were born before nineteen thirty-nine or not. The world, time...it slipped. Jumped forward three decades in one. We antediluvians have been left permanently out of gear...