Word: chasms
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...Community of Interest. But if the chasm between the two Germanys was growing, the gap between Catholics and Protestants was closing. In Munich Kirchentag delegates found themselves in the heart of Catholic Germany. It was the largest body of Protestants to descend on Munich since the armies of Gustavus Adolphus captured the city in 1632, and their advent was a great success. Munich's Joseph Cardinal Wendel took in Danish Bishop Frode Beyer and his wife as house guests, and many a Catholic family followed the cardinal's example. All over the city, for the Kirchentag...
...Samuel (Waiting for Godot) Beckett, he deserves full marks for consistency. Having decided that life is a hapless, hopeless thing, he goes right on repeating his message. His latest novel to be published in the U.S. (it was written in 1953) does not back off an inch from the chasm. Watt is a worthy literary companion to such other Beckett anti-heroes as Murphy, Malone and Mahood. Like them, he does not have a chance, and does not really want...
...chasm is widening between Cuba's Fidel Castro and the upper classmen of Caribbean democracy-Costa Rica's ex-President José ("Pepe") Figueres, Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt, Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Muñoz Marín-who at first welcomed Castro as the young new champion of freedom...
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...this applies as well to the club officer's regard of his rank-and-file) leads to a martyred bitterness toward those whom he is supposed to represent. The realization that his fellows are asking "Who cares?" eventually leads him to mutter, "The hell with them," and the chasm between the academic reality and the dream of the leader increases considerably...