Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bold Experiment. To Harold B. Dunkel, director of the University of Chicago's precollegiate education program, this sort of work is part of a bold new experiment. A professor of education with a Ph.D. in Greek, Dunkel has long been worried about the "enormous gap in communication" between the nation's high-school teachers and its college professors. ("Communication between the two groups is not only bad, it is practically nonexistent.") Last summer, with a $30,000 grant from the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education, Dunkel started some college-level courses for high...
Critic Thomson's musical taste buds respond best to French music, and his own scores (Louisiana Story, Four Saints in Three Acts) resemble it in their neatness, transparent textures and often, inconsequence. His departure leaves a gap in the ranks of U.S. music journalism: there is now no practicing musician in its top ranks, no dedicated champion of modern U.S. composers. His post on the Trib will be filled by Columbia University's Budapest-born Music-Historian Paul Henry Lang, author of the scholarly, 1043-page Music in Western Civilization. Quips one friend: "He thinks music ceased...
Mountain Dynasts. When Kentucky was becoming a state, a pair of tall, silent brothers from South Carolina crossed Daniel Boone's Wilderness Trail and settled in the foothills beyond Cumberland Gap. Ever since, the descendants of Malachi and Edward Cooper have been prominent in the affairs of Pulaski County...
Mundt's proposal might close the gap created by the FBI's quite proper refusal to evaluate its own reports. Unless some central agency is created, Government departments will continue to handle security evidence by inconsistent standards...
...industrial blade of Dr. Burns's scissors, however, would have to move still faster to close the gap with the financial blade. Last week stock prices continued their eight-month advance. Among the most active stocks were Studebaker (up 2¾ to 18) and Packard (up ⅝ to 4) on reports that a merger of the companies would be announced shortly. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 1.4 points, closed the week at a new 25-year high...