Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Filling the gap left by King is no easy task. King was not only a superb orator, but he also had credentials-such as the Nobel Prize-that impressed the white power structure. Though Abernathy's assets are far less gilt-edged and his speaking style retains brimstone Baptist elements, he grows more sophisticated as he emerges from the comparative obscurity in which he lived under King. Says Mrs. Abernathy: "I guess you could have called him the man in the shadow...
...main influence of the emergence of drugs on their prep school scenes is a widened gap in the understanding the faculties and students of the two schools have of each other. The big secret students used to hide from their housemasters was drinking. It meant automatic boot. And there was almost always some of it around especially among the big, non-team-captain type athletes. People would get caught passed out in their rooms over Spring Weekend. A few would get kicked out each year. Dozens would come in on the bus every Saturday to tank up in the rooms...
...instructorships are eliminated, or if faculty is cut back, as was suggested, to permit salary raises for junior faculty. One of the fundamental aspects of Harvard education, the close relationship between tutor or section man, and student, demands a large teaching staff. Is Harvard going to fill the gap by hiring more teaching fellows at salaries which compare unfavorably with those of T.F.'s at many other colleges? The Dunlop report gives extraordinarily little consideration to the broader effects of its recommendations on the instructional process...
...interior line will be another gap in the Crimson ranks next year. The loss of All-Ivy guard Al Bersin, guard Stan Grenidge, and tackles Bob Brooks and Joe DeBettencourt opens serious wounds in proud Crimson lines--both offense and defense. Tackle Steve Zebal is the only returning lineman on defense...
...Balloon, a wistful meld of love story and art appreciation, and in The Dolt, which tells of a writer who cannot think of middles for his stories. The Dolt is also an oblique comment on the limits of conventional storytelling forms and a squint at the generation gap: the writer's son is an 8-ft.-tall hippie draped with a scrape woven out of 200 transistor radios, all turned on and tuned in to different stations. " Just by looking at him you could hear Portland and Nogales, Mexico." Occasionally, Barthelme gives in to his talent for slickness...