Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went to Harvard in the old white shoe days. Yet he bridged the gap between the old and the new Harvard," Beer said. "He adapted beautifully, and was a leader in adaptation...
...Talk about the generation gap! Young people are to be fed a diet of musical pap predigested by McLendon and his American Mothers' Committee; only a connoisseur of "serious" music may sample Bomarzo, the hero of which is "sexually ambivalent and frustrated, ghost-ridden, and obsessed with death." One shudders to consider the effects of Mr. McLendon's taste on works such as Tristan und Isolde (premarital sex), Salome (fetishism and degeneracy) and Wozzeck (sadism and murder). "English records that deal with sex, sin and drugs" are what make the best popular music true, if controversial art, precisely...
...days as presidential press aide, he thought it unfair to blame the Administration for digging a credibility gap, and now that he is publisher of Long Island's tabloid Newsday, Bill Moyers, 32, thinks the same thing. The nation's newspapers, he told the Illinois Bankers Association, share equal blame for any gap because of all the conflicting interpretations and plain bad reporting. Said Bill: "I learned at the White House that what's happening often depends upon who is looking, and that of all the great myths of American journalism, objectivity is the greatest...
...left, cops lower down the line felt something had to be done. Sergeant William Berry, president of the local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, decided that "we had a greater purpose than just going to parties and drinking beer." He hired a law firm to bridge the gap between the civil service cops and their city employers. Then he retained Bonsib, Inc., a Fort Wayne, Ind., public relations company. "We needed to get the man on the street to understand the police and their problems," explained Berry. Bonsib began by drawing up a 28-page...
Jones attacked the intentional clouding of the "achievement gap" between Negro and white college students. "If a student has done well in high school, notwithstanding the fact that he has only reached the eighth or ninth grade level, and if he continues to do well in situations where he is judged on the basis of a curved score, he has no reason to think that he is something short of brilliant. Thus the student will likely make less effort to close the gap...