Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time the hearings ended, the subcommittee may not have accomplished much in the way of preparing future legislation. But the yippies, in their effort to turn the hearings into a circus, proved more puerile and vulgar than satirical or funny. The gap between the two sides seemed limitless. As the yippies followed Rubin out in one of their periodic protests, South Carolina's Congressman Albert Watson asked Police Witness Grubisic in puzzlement, "How can you account for people following anyone like that?" Grubisic could only shake his head and reply: "I don't know, other than that they...
...HEART of this incongruity, I think, lies the gap between Wilder and Diamond on the one hand, and Simon on the other. There would be no cause to criticize the show in such terms if it hadn't retained so much from the movie and at the same time acquired so much that is new and not quite in phase. Besides holding fast to the screenplay's construction, Simon has used several short sections of dialogue intact, which have in common that they come from the story's more serious episodes. In the funnier scenes, he has cut loose with...
Behind them, however, Penn looks a little thin. In the opener against Rutgers, there was nearly a minute gap between Lokken and third man Dan Stevens. Another minute separated Stevens and seniors Bill Caldwell and Bill Kelso...
...SHORT LIFE, Social Relations 148 has raised important educational issues for Harvard, and indeed, for many American colleges. These issues spring not so much from the course's content as from its structure. They are issues which should be discussed and debated publicly, not resolved in a stop-gap fashion for this course alone...
...Administration had failed at home as well as abroad. The credibility gap shows that Johnson has not persuaded the public he was doing the right thing. To some extent, this is a tribute to the press, but it is also a comment on the men and institutions which are running the war. For better or worse, they have been bad propagandists. The extent to which any administration can deceive the public without control of the media is fortunately limited, but the Johnson Administration has repeatedly misused its still formidable weapons of persuasion. The blunders have been sometimes comic, sometimes pitiable...