Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cost of dragging through mud and slime the most august political office of the U.S. Why won't this man resign? America is trudging through a leaderless period, and it has long been obvious that Nixon, whether guilty or innocent, is no longer capable of filling the leadership gap...
...Safety is not the only factor involved. Of all the alternative power sources now available, only nuclear energy is far enough developed to fill Americans' ever-growing demand for electricity in the near future. Should oil and coal, with all their problems, be used to take up the gap? Or can the growth of electricity consumption be slowed enough through energy conservation and more efficient electrical devices to preclude the need for great numbers of new power plants of any kind? As long as the answers remain unclear, the great nuclear debate promises to continue...
...dirty word. His persistent message is that thinking is feeling, a view that underlies his advice about how to prepare mentally for troubleshooting an engine. Briefly, motor maintenance requires a good deal of quiet concentration so that the underlying principles of the engine are allowed to fill the gap between the object (engine) and the subject (mechanic). A Zen monk would say that under such conditions, the fixer and the fixed are no longer opposing objects but one reality. The author is more practical. Among other things, he suggests that if you cannot fix the bike yourself, at least avoid...
...alienating gap between subject and object that Pirsig attempts to fill. To do so he alternates philosophical discourses with descriptions of what happened on a trip that he took out West in 1968, his son Chris riding on the back of the cycle. By the time they reach Bozeman, Mont., where Pirsig once taught college English, it is apparent that his ideas have been earned at considerable cost and suffering. He reveals some frightening facts about himself. In 1961 he suffered a mental breakdown and underwent a series of shock treatments, which wiped out many of his personal memories...
...underlying reality was not to be found in solid objects but in the harmonious order of the objects. Phaedrus called this unobservable order "Quality" and spent years trying to convince his teachers, and later his students, that it was the missing link that would close the subject-object gap and the schism between classic and romantic, between art and technology. Whether it was his method or the intense manner in which he went about his preaching, people thought Phaedrus was going a little crazy. Eventually, he accommodated them...