Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while movies, dances, songs, and fads seemed parts of a conspiracy against reality, what was the role of theatre at Harvard? In the first place, there was very little on-campus theatre in 1939. The gap seems to have been filled by the thriving pre-Broadway plays at the Colonial Shubert, and Wilbur theaters; reviews of these plays appear at least weekly in The Crimson. But Broadway and, unfortunately, the Crimson reviewer were part of the anti-reality conspiracy. As Burns Mantle, compiler of The Best Plays of Broadway, puts it, 1939 was a "comedy year." The Crimson reviewer raves...
...DIFFERENT INDIVIDUAL narrates each chapter of the book. The tales are simple, childlike, and vivid, both imagistic and imaginative--bridging the gap between two languages...
...fitting climax to a superbly contested meet, Crimson anchorman Hess Yntema gamely closed the gap on Tiger sprinter Mal Howard, only to have the electronic clocking system declare the Tiger quartet a .4 second victor, giving Princeton a slim 419-411 final edge in the overall competition...
...that the mutiny took place, but that it was so long in coming. Well-trained by American, British and Israeli experts, the 42,000-man army is a modern outfit with-at least for Ethiopia-modern views. Its educated officers have long been unhappy about the appalling gap between rich and poor and the inefficiencies and inequities of a feudal agricultural system. Last year drought, landlord indifference and government mismanagement combined to produce a famine that left at least 50,000 dead...
...appreciation of the diversity of urban life, are scarcely rooted. Lumet lets us glimpse the man's Old World Italian family (his father and brother are cobblers) and his Greenwich Village girlfriends. He creates locker-room comedy out of Serpico's love for opera and ballet. But the crucial gap between his personal life and public service, and the despair that drove him to paranoia and defensive put-ons are only vaguely rendered, like a plainclothesman's arrest sheets...