Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nascent but enthusiastic neophyte in Latin scholarship, found my studies rewarded as I read your article, "Edibility Gap" [Dec. 6]. Included in your photo of ostentatious restaurant menus was one of obvious Roman vintage touting the gustatory delights of a New York establishment with acute illusions of classical grandeur. Atop the menu, in flawless (if somewhat perfunctory) Latin, were the words of the poet Catullus: "You will dine well at my table." Whereas the rest of the menu appears hopelessly verbose, its author was here perhaps all too brief, for, loosely translated, Catullus actually wrote: "You will dine well...
...Laird published A House Divided-America's Strategy Gap, which argued strongly in favor of the rockiest of hard lines in military and foreign policy. He inveighed against 20th century revolutionary movements, and condemned the United Nations as "dominated
...been seeking for years, going ahead with the Army's anti-ballistic missile system, modernizing and perhaps expanding the Strategic Air Command's missile arsenal beyond present plans. All of this is at least generally in tune with Nixon's campaign talk about a "security gap." Both men are aware, of course, that buying these and other weapons systems would cost tens of billions that would be almost impossible to obtain under present circumstances. Thus a wholesale expansion of arms development and procurement is unlikely...
...unknown business. But wait. Take the centerpiece of a comprehensive show of Westermann's work mounted at the Los Angeles County Museum. Its title is the first eye opener: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea. The figure's mouth is an angry gap, its nose vaguely phallic, its ears two wooden plugs, its body a cupboard. When a viewer (avoiding the museum's watchful guard) opens the cupboard door, he finds a tiny armless man dangling head down from a trapeze. Beneath, a ship is sinking in a sea of bottle tops...
...will pick up another corporate effort by Smo-Bros Productions, The Glenn Campbell Goodtime Hour, featuring frequent visitations by Pat Paulsen. Among the other midyear substitutes following older formulas: an NBC mystery comedy, My Friend Tony, by Producer Sheldon Leonard (I Spy), and an ABC game show, Generation Gap, put together by David Susskind's Talent Associates...