Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This defensiveness, plus the huge ideological gap between gubernatorial Democrats and legislative Republicans, made it difficult and rather useless for Fifties Liberals to conceive of any sort of political compromise. This attitude did not serve Williams well in the 1959 cash crisis--the incident which destroyed his national and severely damaged his local reputation. State revenues had simply dried up during the 1957-58 recession, and when Williams presented a reasonable tax program, the legislature, eager to increase the sales tax, refused to budge. So did Williams. As a result, the state could not meet its payrolls and phrase "payless...
...Crimson has been strengthened by several talented sophomores. With the graduation of team captain Tom Bilodeau, the varsity was left with a gap at shortstop. But sophomore Jeff Grate has played good ball at short and seems to have the job nailed down...
...abstract and intricate nature is clearly brought out in the Boston Museum's extraordinary exhibition of Durer and his Time. But above all, this show brings out Durer's supreme position among German draughtsmen of the fifteenth century. He was the man who tried to bridge the gap between Late Gothic linear expression and the compositional stability of the Renaissance...
...courses in the University. But the poet John McArdin Berryman, who visited Cambridge last month to great for the Advocate, enjoys a certain underground popularity in the East that is greater than the sum of the responsible remarks people make about him--partly because there is still a communications gap between the literary East and the no-less moneyed, no-less-well educated, but far less established West (Berryman lives and teaches in Minneapolis), and partly because his witty, original, finely wrought and somehow insurrectionary poetry offers a marked challenge to the Way Poems are Being Written in this country...
...naked and unadorned, may be fine for the true believer, but some theologians argue that Biblical terminology has ceased to be part of the world's vocabulary, and is in danger of becoming a special jargon as incomprehensible to some as the equations of physicists. To bridge this communications gap, they have tried to reinterpret the concept of God into contemporary philosophical terms. Union Seminary's John Macquarrie, for example, proposes a description of God based on Martin Heidegger's existential philosophy, which is primarily concerned with explaining the nature of "being" as such. To Heidegger, "being" is an incomparable...