Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This kind of news was evidence that in a country where all men are legally free & equal there is a wide and continuing gap between U.S. deeds and U.S. ideals. Eleven months ago President Truman appointed a special committee to see what could be done about closing that gap. Last week the committee, headed by General Electric's Charles Edward Wilson,* made its report...
Ratner has no formula for pleasing both "classes and masses," other than to "take the serious stuff and put it into mass language." But radio is gradually closing the gap anyway, he believes: "The professor is discovering Jack Benny and the ditch digger is discovering symphony at the same time. Radio gets into people's houses and cross-fertilization begins...
...filling in the gap between The Flowering and Indian Summer, comes The Times of Melville and Whitman, a rich portrait of U.S. literary life shortly before & after the Civil War. Hopping nimbly from region to region, Brooks lovingly sketches their literary manners-the rash of reform movements in New York, "attractional harmony and passional hygiene . . . water cure and Graham Bread"; the burly tall tales of the Far West where Joaquin Miller, "the greatest liar living . . . half a mountebank and all the time a showman," turned out crude, vigorous sketches of pioneer life; the sad whimsies of the post bellum South...
...long gap must be bridged before campaign promises and committee proposals become reality. Promises and proposals are a first step, but the stair-way to complete protection of civil liberties is a long one, and many steps remain. Too often, progressive proposals find that Congressional pigeonholes are their graves. As the committee itself stressed, the time for action on these recommendations...
With the tackle squad reduced to carbon copy strength, only Dean Markham and Johu Sorynski appear ready to plug the gap left by the injuries to Pierce and his running mate, Howie Houston...