Word: chasms
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Nominally they addressed the problem of the two cultures: how true is it in America that two monolithic cultures--one scientific, one humane--face each other across an impassable chasm of no communication? Actually, they suggested three men in a revolving door; they were all rotating about a common axis, but none got through to the others...
Since Russia pulled back in Cuba and the Red Chinese marched into India, the Sino-Soviet split had widened into a chasm. It will probably remain unbridgeable for a long time to come. In Belgrade, U.S. Ambassador George F. Kennan predicted that the rift "is on the verge of coming into the open, in the same way that Moscow's fight with Belgrade...
...modern Britain's needs are often widely at odds with its resources, a gap that is most glaringly evident in its educational system, which produces only 1,780 university students per million citizens-roughly Turkey's rate-v. 16,670 in the U.S. At that, the social chasm between the elite undergraduates of quasi-aristocratic Oxbridge and the more numerous plebeians who attend the provincial redbrick universities is such, in the words of Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders. former director of the London School of Economics, that "four-fifths of our undergraduates feel inferior for life." This snobbishness Sampson...
Other Commonwealth leaders declared that Britain's realignment with Europe and away from her Afro-Asian partners will only deepen the chasm that divides the underdeveloped southern nations and the affluent Northern Hemisphere. Said Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan: "You cannot expect friendly coexistence between those countries that are deliberately kept backward and the ones that are bulging with wealth." Black Africa's "uncommitted" Commonwealth members, notably Tanganyika and Nigeria, stoutly rejected Europe's offer of "associate membership" in the Common Market on the theory that this would tie their policies to Western Europe, NATO...
Parent to Strangers. The battle goes on across a broad chasm that Chatô, in his frantic private life, dug between himself and his children. In 1922 he married the daughter of a French architect living in Brazil; the two separated before his first son, Gilberto, was born. Three years later, Chatô married the daughter of a Brazilian banker; before they parted, his second son, Fernando, was born. Chatô saw to it that his two sons were well educated and well provided for, but beyond that he had little time for them. After one of his frequent quarrels...