Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upper middle classes. We have grown up with the civil rights struggle, and we know that our black brethren still face indifference, abuse, or even death when they stand up for what we once naively thought were God-given rights. Our teachers and our textbooks tell us that the gap between rich and poor in our society has scarcely narrowed in more than fifty years. Deprivation persists amidst affluence, for our economy, for all its productivity and all its prosperity, still rests on the exploitation and manipulation of the many for the profit...
Finally, sophomores John Ballantyne and Vince Vaccarello are getting a close look to fill the Varney-Szaro gap as halfback subs, and Ken O'Connell and Gus Crim continue to duel for the fullback spot...
...break in somewhere. But this febrile farce betrays its videosyncrasies wherever it meanders. Garner, a magazine photographer named Grif, finds that he cannot communicate with his hippie dippy son. When the boy decides to tour Europe, his meddle-class mother (Debbie Reynolds) decides to fill the generation gap by taking a house in France for the summer. Togetherness swiftly degenerates into apartheid...
...love him, but it embarrasses me to walk down the street with him"), and the optimistic greeting to the age of Aquarius ("No more falsehoods or derisions, golden living dreams of visions") are engaging enough to draw listeners of any age to the junior side of the generation gap...
Like Johnson, Humphrey has become distrustful of the press?although his condition is nowhere near so grave as the President's?and he has begun to open a credibility gap of his own. Like Johnson, he has been unable to select or attract really first-rate aides. With some exceptions, notably his newly appointed campaign manager, Larry O'Brien, his staff...