Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most refreshing remark heard in this day of university presidents meekly compromising with "student power" was that of Dr. Grayson Kirk, president of Columbia University, who when responding to the question, "Aren't the older generation at fault in the generation gap?" said, "Yes, for allowing young people to reach adulthood without respect for law except those that please them." It is sad that we don't have more such administrators to face these insolent youngsters. Parents of such students should let them go to work to support themselves...
...diverse crew is not without its frictions. There is something of a generation gap between the veterans and the youngsters, a certain amount of resentment that "Adamant Adam" Walinsky gets the last word so often on rhetoric. O'Brien and O'Donnell "speak to each other, but don't communicate," as one colleague puts it. O'Brien has been assigned to the primary states, O'Donnell to delegate work in the non-primary states. Goodwin is somewhat out of favor; he worked for both Johnson and McCarthy. Greenfield keeps on permanent display a college newspaper editorial he wrote criticizing Jack...
...whole harrowing experience happened because the men relied on a map that told them they were a good 200 feet from the nearest abandoned mine. It was wrong. The mechanical digger easily bit through the thin wall to an adjacent flooded mine, and water rushed through the gap, knocking down large chunks of walls. Four men drowned in the torrent. The six others scrambled to the highest spot in the 9 by 140-ft. area, frantically constructed a barricade of timber and heavy burlap to keep out the flood, foul air and deadly gases. As the water continued to rise...
...problems--medical care for the poor, and clinical training for medical students--will not be gained by metaphysical and physical re-construction of the old City Hospital or by construction of a small South End Hospital. The entirely new nature of medical care calls for an abandoning of stop-gap proposals and anachronistic wishes. Boston's citizens and Boston's medical students deserve more than sloppy attempts to avoid some very basic problems...
...long history of drama. The sands of mediocrity have sometimes silted over the theater for 2,000 years-for example, between the titans of Greek tragedy and the genius of Elizabethan England. The lackluster quality of contemporary U.S. playwriting and the dearth of substantial new talent are simply a gap rather than an omen. The conventional and obvious scapegoat is Broadway, but this is pure fallacy: Broadway, with all its faults, has presented, honored and sustained every major U.S. playwright...