Word: chasms
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...County. Reason enough to exhume the hoary old horror and reissue its haunting license. But there are still better reasons. In the game of suspense, Mistress Radcliffe can tease with the best of them, and in the art of natural description she can pile a crag or plummet a chasm with any man short of Scott himself. True, the dear lady is one of the ickiest prigs who ever put quill to scented paper. Yet if in 1794 her virginal vaporings came on as symptoms of high sensibility, in 1966 they come off as conventions of high comedy. All unintentionally...
...last month, wrapped in its grey parachute 2,500 ft. down on a 70° slope. But Alvin proved a ham-handed retriever. On its first try at getting a line around the bomb, the sub booted the bomb 20 ft. down the slope toward a 3,000-ft. chasm from which it might never have been extracted; it was lost again for nine days...
...always been a country in love with the future. Americans have never quite shared the traditional notion that prying into tomorrow is suspect if not downright dangerous-the sort of feeling that made Dante consign soothsayers to the fourth chasm of the Inferno. On the contrary, the U.S. readily accepted the fact that modern science established progress as a faith and the future as an earthly Eden. Yet recently, the American passion for the future has taken a new turn. Leaving Utopians and science-fiction writers far behind, a growing number of professionals have made prophecy a serious and highly...
...Rock Congressman Brooks Hays and subsequently prevented Negroes from holding civil rights demonstrations. Judge Wisdom left no doubt as to his own opinions of the Klan, branded defendant Klansmen as "ignorant bullies, callous of the harm they know they are doing and lacking in sufficient understanding to comprehend the chasm between their own twisted Konstitution and the noble charter of liberties under law that is the American Constitution...
There is a lot going on in the G.O.P.-and on the surface most of it sounds like trouble. In California, where Democratic Governor Pat Brown appears vulnerable for next year, there is a veritable chasm between the so-called left and right wings of the Republican Party, and some Republicans are saying, and sounding as though they meant it, that they would rather vote for Brown than for a primary-winning Republican of the other faction. In New York City, Conservative William Buckley now figures to get about 12% of this year's vote for mayor, a considerable...