Word: chasms
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...Fletcher's article and the whole beat phenomenon have kindled one of the liveliest debates England has enjoyed in recent years. The Prime Minister, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Prince Philip and Poet Stephen Spender-are all on the side of the beats, though others have gasped at the chasm of vacuity they see revealed in Ringo's face...
...genuine guilt for his ability to escape persecution that others cannot escape because of their skin color. "In order to really help," he says, "there have got to be enough whites who attempt to give up their obsession with whiteness and stop seeking their side of the broadening racial chasm." The Henry campaign in Mississippi was successful only as "a means of recreating hope among Negroes that they will gain their freedom," he says. There is a great deal still to be done...
...Blaine recognizes, however, that there is considerable resistance to further expansion of psychiatry at Harvard. Traditionalists mourn the passing of a more leisurely and less bureaucratic Harvard. In the past, the tutor was both teacher and friend. But now an ever widening chasm separates student and faculty. For advice once given by his tutor, the student now must turn to a "specialist" in Holyoke Center...
...danced with impatience, we yearned for the moon and there we are, suddenly, left all alone, with life yawning ahead like a great black chasm . . . So we weep for two or three years more, very quietly, and then one day, too sick at heart, we die, with no fuss, leaving as little trace on earth as a bird's flight across...
...white man who seeks a peaceful revolution, but he feels the ground giving way beneath him. Soon the place where he now stands may be a gaping chasm. On one side will be the white supporters of Verwoerd, on the other the militant blacks, "the men of blood." If it comes to that, the white liberal will have no place in South Africa, no matter what the new order brings. Adrian Du Plessis and his comrades will be strangers in their own land...