Word: chasms
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...expression on his face and was not eager, this hot night, for argument. He finally said: "You're right. The country is bigger and richer and more powerful-not greater. The soul of our Revolution has been lost." He paused again, considering his words. "Do you sense the chasm that exists between that place [gesturing toward the White House] and the people who were here today on the Mall, the citizens of 50 states come to see and touch their history, our history? The White House has become a royal palace, inhabited by a new, an American sort...
...search for the future proceeds tentatively, the meaning of the past becomes ever more clear. Vietnam has changed the lives of all of us. It has illuminated the yawning chasm between our government's professed ideals and its conduct. It has forced us to examine our society and our history more closely, searching for an explanation for the decade of genocide...
VIETNAM HAS CHANGED the lives of all of us. It has illuminated the yawning chasm between our government's professed ideals and its conduct. It has forced us to examine more closely our society and our history, searching for an explanation for the decade of genocide...
...Chasm. In most of the debates over the territories, Prime Minister Golda Meir has sided with the hawks. She seems to have strong popular backing for her increasingly militant stand. A survey published last week by the Institute for Applied Social Research in Jerusalem noted that 58% of Israeli adults opposed concessions on the West Bank (v. 41% a year ago). Other findings: 96% want to keep Sharm el Sheikh and 93% the Golan Heights; 63% are prepared to give up part of the Sinai Desert in return for a peace settlement, but 66% feel that the Gaza Strip, formerly...
There is another division within Israeli society that will even more profoundly influence the nation's future. Every country has a generation gap between its leadership and its younger citizens. In Israel, the gap is a veritable chasm. The ruling elite is almost entirely made up of men and women, now in their 60s and 70s, who were born in Europe. Only two members of the present 19-man Cabinet, Dayan and Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, are native-born Israelis, as are only 27 out of 120 members of the Knesset...