Word: chasms
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...apparent stability does not render it legitimate. We must continue to demand that the Faculty live up to its professed ideal of maintaining a community of free and rational discourse characterized by reciprocal rights and responsibilities. The Faculty must be made to see the chasm between its beliefs and its actions: the Resolution must be rewritten before reforms in the CRR can be considered...
However, Brown had the making of an improbable alliance. As a teenager he had worked in Washington for then-Congressman John Bell Williams, an oldline Mississippi conservative. Although an ideological chasm separated them politically, a close friendship remained...
...striving to achieve some measure of dignity and control over thei own lives--an objective Americans have traditionally championed. What should trouble Americans is not the realization that their government has employed some sort of violence. It is the repressive objective of that violence that demands condemnation, illuminating the chasm between our government's professed ideals and its conduct...
Fitzgerald denounced the chasm created by technology between war crimes and their perpetrators. "Pilots flying over Vietnam are to busy eating ham sandwiches and listening to baseball scores to see what they're doing," she said...
...almost any sticky situation is to form a committee. A committee is a useful tool to the beleaguered administrator: It diffuses criticism, it shoulders blame, and, in some lucky circumstances, it performs efficiently and well. This latter quality, in most perspectives, in the crucial ingredient which traverses the chasm between the ceremonial and the purposeful...