Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peasantry and the working class is held off, however, for as long as possible. Industrial imperialism depends on workers' accepting the traditional standard of living while laboring at industrial jobs to support foreign companies and the increasing consumer demands of the emerging Western-style managerial elite. The economic gap between the rich and poor, widened by the exploitation of the people for foreign profit, becomes a broader cultural gap as well...
What makes Fairy Tale a successful book is Donleavy's ability to subtly exploit the cruelty and humor contained in the gap between Christian's appearance and reality. Set in New York, the style that gives the fairy tale hero instant acceptance is the same one that turns Christian into a man who is both exploiter and exploited. It is his style which wins him jobs and pushes him into brawls and disastrous affairs...
Anwar Sadat inherited this process and made it his own. He was frustrated by his troubles with the superpowers and by the Arabs' continuing divisions and limitations, and he was hampered by his own credibility gap: he could not mobilize the Arabs because none of them believed he was serious about doing so. In the end Sadat precipitated a war that he nicknamed Operation Spark-a desperate gamble that through adversity the Arab world might find its real strength...
Black Britons are also beginning to bridge the gap between themselves and Britain's other "coloreds"--the English catchall term applied to blacks of West Indian or African origin, Asians, and even Britons of Cypriot ancestry. Like blacks, Britain's other "coloreds" face substantial discrimination. Asian immigrants live in scandalously poor conditions, and if they are found to have entered Britain illegally, they are sometimes repatriated immediately without their families even being notified...
After raising $1.7 million to found a biweekly magazine, Publisher George Hirsch was understandably jubilant. His enthusiastic selling convinced backers that his project would fill the gap that he thinks exists between weekly newsmagazines and monthlies like Harper's and Atlantic. He had also corralled such notable New, Recent and Old Journalists as Jimmy Breslin, Larry L. King, J. Anthony Lukas, Joe McGinniss, Studs Terkel, Nicholas von Hoffman and Murray Kempton. So the promotional brochures for Hirsch's New Times were festive. A color drawing of some of the writers in a party setting carried the tongue...