Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death left no particular gap-even among French intellectuals-because she had never seemed to belong anywhere. As a Jew she denounced everything Jewish; as a Christian she shrank from joining a church; as a political worker she had no faith in politics; as a revolutionary fighter she deplored reliance on force. Yet today Simone Weil is looked upon by an increasing audience as one of the outstanding religious figures of her time.* In the current issue of the Jewish monthly, Commentary, is a penetrating study of the "Saint of the Absurd" by Leslie A. Fiedler, associate professor of humanities...
...action was fast and hard-fought, especially in the second half when Thayer stole the ball repeatedly to close the gap. Holworthy, which couldn't seem to miss any shots before the intermission, was hard put to hold its narrowing lead...
Sophomores will fill this gap as best they can. Last year's freshman captain, Dave Hedberg, is top man, and Bill Pratt and Ron Huebsch and junior Bob Stroud give Ulen a strong bench...
...quarter of 1950 had been cut 25% from the first Marshall Plan year. Currently, U.S. stockpiling was bringing an unexpectedly large number of dollars into the sterling area, especially for tin and rubber. Britain's share of U.S. military assistance-still unspecified-would also help keep the dollar gap closed...
...forgot the opera for the time being. Landon found one score in Berlin's State Library, another in the Esterhazy archives of Budapest's State Library, but both were incomplete. At one point, the frustrated musicologists had begun composing a recitative to fill in a gap when the missing part suddently turned up in a misnumbered manuscript...