Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...else hesitated to check on their activities for fear of inhibiting them. The advent of birth control pills has tranquilized the fear of pregnancy among young girls who have no moral reservations about sexual activity. "What are parents and what is the community doing to fill the gap?" asks Mrs. Eileen Strutz, director of the city's Planned Parenthood center. "Nothing...
...typical Sunday in the New York Times. The lead editorial urged limitation of U.S. forces in Viet Nam and endorsed the idea of "an interim national government acceptable to both sides." Columnist James Reston, also questioning U.S. policy in Viet Nam, brooded over the "gap between the evangelical rhetoric of official Washington and the political realities of the world." The lead letter in the letters-to-the-editor column, written by an assistant professor of humanities, excoriated the U.S. Government for its "blind antiCommunism" and detected a "nascent war psychosis" in the American public...
...with members of each involved in actual organizational work in government programs: poverty, education, medicare, housing and urban renewal, civil rights. A few of these groups are operating now, and he hopes to have others soon, including one working with ABCD. He characterizes the whole program as "bridging the gap between the people who have PBH sympathies and the people who are someday going to be winning elections...
Teach-Ins are only part of the IUC plan to fill the "information gap between officialdom and the public," said Harry Zinn, a professor at B.U. The committee also hopes to support political candidates and to promote community action through television and radio programs. Congressional hearings, and community study groups, he said...
...while others were inclined to say it was simply a sharpening of the senses. Things took on an extraordinary importance when they were high. "I became fascinated with objects. Where things began and ended, where they converged and came to an edge or a point, where there was a gap, a hole, a void, I seemed to be drawn to it and could stare at it for long periods of time." To many, colors became more vivid and jazz more intelligible...