Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They appeared to speak with one magisterial voice, leading sympathizers to generalize: "They have something to tell us. We should listen." On most issues, in fact, youth spoke with as many voices as any other group, but the discords were drowned out in the uproar over war and generation gap. Class, ethnic and geographical differences went largely unexamined. When kids battled cops in the '60s, it was overlooked that the cops were often the same age as the kids. Once the war wound down, the convenient abstraction, youth, began to crumble...
Despite a host of professional critics, who call him a charlatan, Cole has garnered some support. Says Keith Norcross, consultant surgeon at Birmingham's Royal Orthopedic Hospital: "Dr. Cole has shown great courage. He's filling a gap left by the medical profession. The women helping Dr. Cole should be given all our praise for what they are doing. They have a generosity of spirit, compassion and understanding...
...latest male career to be invaded by liberated women is crime, according to Sir Leon Radzinowicz, Wolfson Professor of Criminology at England's Cambridge University. Although women have traditionally made up only one-eighth of the criminal population, Radzinowicz says, they will soon be closing the gap if the present trend continues. The trend will go on, he predicts, as long as women continue to liberate themselves from their traditional place in the home. During the World Wars, when women were forced to do tasks performed by men, their crime rate went up. "When the men came back...
...setting the mighty linguistic engines of Shakespeare and the Bible against the bankrupt slang and pusillanimous euphemisms of the witnesses, Ervin is admittedly using cannons against sparrows. But he is also constantly reminding us that the gap between language and truth has not always existed-and need not continue to exist...
...they [the Russians] close the qualitative gap, the quantitative advantage must be reduced." Some peppery exchanges seem to be ahead for SALT...