Word: chasms
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...dissent because the protester may have something to say worth listening to. If we dismiss dissent as coming from 'rebels without a cause,' we will soon find ourselves becoming leaders without an effect. By its neglect, by its insensitivity, by its arrogance, our present leadership has caused an unprecedented chasm to develop in our society...
...From the chasm an echo...
...silence, in beauty, in rosy nakedness the squaw sits easily by the chasm ledge and waits. Forever she has been gazing at the purple canyon wall opposite her and now she feels the moment of the mystery approaching. Her arms are heavy ropes holding to her a brown young brave, his electric hair bound by a vinyl red band. An arrow-bodied boy with a sweet thing not yet grown callous with age and hard use. He is astonished and shaking, his body shimmers in sweat...
...young brave into her. Now the first sunlight comes, a blade of white cutting the canyon wall across the way. The brave shivers and the squaw feels a mighty breath growing in his chest, and then a first cracked warwhoop escapes him and goes bouncing and echoing down the chasm...
...have proved ourselves less than wise by ravaging our environment almost beyond saving in less than 500 years, while they managed to maintain an ecological balance for perhaps more than 10,000 years. The new militants may be just the ones to build a bridge of understanding across the chasm separating our cultures-if we have the humility to learn and they have the patience to teach...