Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have kept my cool. I haven't bugged out. I am still in Fat City." So, acting in his capacity as President of all the people, Lyndon Johnson pulled from his hippie pocket a speech that took sardonic note of "the generation gap." Addressed to 121 Presidential Scholars before a White House dinner, the speech drew freely from a slightly obsolescent hippie lexicon that Lynda Bird had compiled for McCall...
...that has never undergone a true political revolution or a religious reformation that could move it into the modern world. What divides the Arabs from Israel is not merely tradition or religion-for centuries past, Jews were far more tolerantly treated by Arabs than by Christians-but a culture gap. Israel, which in size constitutes less than .2% of the Arab lands, is hated by the Arabs in part because it is a successful, modern, Western state. It stands for all the things the Arabs resent, and yet want. If and when the Arabs manage to enter the Western-style...
...remain active throughout the year. Dunster features Sunday afternoon sightreadings in the library to which anyone with an instrument and a music stand is invited. At Kirkland, the proximity of dining hall and junior common room has inspired a successful series of after-dinner concerts designed to fill the gap between dinner and an evening at the movies...
...more about economics, basic to all our foreign policy interests and involvements, and be able to better relate them to political and security considerations. I also felt that if the private sector didn't commit more of its resources to the development effort, you could forget about closing the gap between the rich northern nations and the poor southern ones. So I audited courses in development theory at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and courses in practical international involvement by free enterprise at the Business School. With this preparation, my idea was to find a job with...
...move with relative quickness and ease to an outside spot. Those people who were in not for the Institute's unique and remarkable intent might not have a way of getting away from the stifling bureaucracy at all. Those who might not otherwise be able to fill a knowledge gap crucial to future service. Or those who might not stay alive politically or find that outside job without a place to pause for a moment to decide what to do next...