Word: chasms
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...also dismissed reports that a chasm had opened between Mass Hall and Dean Dunlop and his advisory in University Hall. "There is a very close working relationship between Mass Hall and University Hall," Steiner commented. "Dean Dunlop is close friends with President Bok and we have great respect...
Riegle's political about-face, (some might say the end of his political naivete) can best be illustrated by the widening of the ideological chasm between himself and his original sponsor: Richard Nixon. The two men met in Cambridge in 1965, when Riegle, an "upward-bound, goal-directed hot-shot," was at the Harvard Business School. Nixon, in town to hire talent for his New York law firm, encouraged Riegle to run for a congressional seat in Flint, Michigan, then a Democratic stronghold...
...understand neither his own mean circumstances nor the sources of Connie's passion for him. Lawrence lacked Thomas Hardy's gift for making the inner lives of simple people eloquent, but at least this Parkin makes the reader aware of the social chasm that Connie Chatterley proposed to cross. Similarly, the ambience of Wragby Hall, dominated by her crippled husband Clifford and his overbred friends, is more fully detailed and becomes one of Lawrence's burning outcries against industrial waste and acquisitiveness...
...vice mayor, Maynard Jackson, a black: "The poor white is beginning to tell himself that it is not enough just to be white. He sees, through television and other media, an America more affluent than ever before. And between that affluence and his own miserable life lies a chasm of despair." At the same time, many unions remain unyielding in opening their ranks to blacks, while white-black clashes in mixed schools and neighborhoods appear to be on the increase throughout the country. Especially in times of recession, fear for one's job outweighs possible common economic interests with...
...diary Anne called him Colonel L. She confided unhappily: "I want to be married, but I never, never will." Certain prides and prejudices needed working out: "He never opens a book, does he? How that separates him from our world. It is hideous to think about-a hideous chasm." The courtship actually began during a special sightseeing flight, Lindbergh at the controls, which resulted in a characteristically girlish epiphany: "Clouds and stars and birds- must have been walking with my head down looking at the puddles for 20 years...