Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NEWS HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "A Question of Values," the first of a three-part series called "Generations Apart," will look into the attitudes on both sides of the generation gap...
Everett, an experienced climber and the first American to scale the four major peaks of North America, had one serious gap in his expertise: he had never climbed in the Himalayas. Neither had the other U.S. members of his team, though all were skilled climbers. Everett was determined to scale Dhaulagiri I by its knifelike southeast ridge, a route never before attempted. He was racing a deadline: because the arrival of monsoon rains in early June would make further climbing immensely risky, the climb had to be accomplished in April and May. The team gathered in Katmandu early last month...
Narrows the Gap...
...light winds Sunday, the Crimson team continually narrowed the gap until, with one race remaining, they were just two points behind Dartmouth and two ahead of Yale...
Though I find the words "imperialist" and "revolutionary" rather droll in American usage, now I wonder if the generation gap is not something more than that--a distinction between a search for truth and a belief in forms. When the non-violent and stupid excesses of those without authority are met by the grisly, sadistic, and inordinate excesses of authority, where is "academic freedom" or "democratic process"? And where are they when the authorities excuse their own excesses as "only human, after all." I know of no such humanity...