Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What ever became of the Generation Gap? It's closed, say two university political science professors. M. Kent Jennings, 39, of the University of Michigan, and Richard G. Niemi, 33, of the University of Rochester, interviewed more than 1,000 high school seniors and one parent of each of the students in 1965, then reinterviewed both groups last year. The result: a convergence of outlook in eight years. Solid majorities in both groups had voted Republican in 1972 (68% of the parents, 59% of their children). Concern about civil rights had diminished sharply in both groups (from...
...sign of the closing gap came from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where a social-dance class that began during the semester break attracted 109 nostalgic students instead of the expected 20 to 30, all eager to learn not the latest rock steps but the dances their parents once did: the rumba, jitterbug, foxtrot, waltz, tango, Charleston, even the polka. Says Instructor Harry Brauser: "These dances serve as a contact point between generations. Kids are now interested in what their parents experienced; everything their parents did is no longer looked down upon...
...there is a studied ambivalence in all my attempts to come to grips with the war. And in that respect I feel kinship with the Frances FitzGerald and admiration for her attempt to bridge the gap between personal experience and historical resolution in Fire in the Lake...
...second sight and comes up with a real, plot-line explanation that is not spiritual but superstitious. That's really the fault of the Daphne du Maurier story from which the film is taken, but it's all the more disturbing because it reminds us how big the gap is between the best film technique and the best film content, a desert where the best technical directors--Bertolucci or Stanley Kubrick--have often gotten caught with nothing to say, needing direction themselves. I just hope Nicolas Roeg doesn't get caught there...
What gives such a sense of the master about Nabokov is perhaps the feeling of common characters, common turns of phrase, common interests running through his long shelf of books. His novels span the gap between contemporary Switzerland and Russia before the Revolution. In between lie post-war America and Berlin between the wars, tea on the edge of Bloomsbury and dinner with Joyce in Paris. There are fantastic countries, like "Ultima Thule" published last spring in a A Russian Beauty and Other Stories...