Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief curiosity in the current Stratford version is director Michael Kahn's decision to relocate the play in 1866. Personally I'd prefer a Rinascimento Romeo to a Risorgimento one. But first love, youthful rambunctiousness and the generation gap (a favorite theme with Shakespeare, as witness Lear, Cymbeline, Othello, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest among others) are universal, and Kahn's choice is perfectly defensible. Shakespeare specified a Verona summer. In 1866, Verona, the episcopal see of the Venetia region abutting Austria, was a hotbed of turmoil, a pawn in the seven-week Austro-Prussian War, during which...
...people who have been in the stands watching but who haven't had a chance to play the game," says Robert Brennan, a former University of Wisconsin track coach and head of the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce, who has been working to bridge the gap between Soglin and the businessmen...
...foreign report was even worse. Population growth, compounded by serious droughts in Africa and Asia, has literally eaten up all the increased food output achieved by poor nations over the past decade, leaving their citizens as ill fed as ever, the experts found. To bridge the gap, McGovern recommended that the U.S. set up a $20 billion "Plowshares for Peace" program that would build stockpiles of food for needy nations to draw on. That is another idea that seems unlikely to be adopted: Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, who will present the Nixon Administration's proposals for solving world food...
...other detention facilities at least once every four years. The board hopes that getting off the bench and behind the bars - sensitivity training of sorts - will "strengthen the understanding judges have of facilities and institutions to which they send individuals." That may well be true, but one great psychological gap will remain, based on the simple fact that cell doors will always swing open at the slightest gesture from a visiting judge...
...Freeman, director of continuing education at Texas Southern University: "All through high school and college I was told that blacks do not commit suicide -they survive. Now we commit suicide, and we go to psychiatrists." The rate of suicide among whites is almost twice that of blacks, but the gap is narrowing...