Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Industrialization has meant other disruptions. "It has created a social gap," says Yavin Rosen, a chemical engineer from Kibbutz Degania. "Managers are driving around in cars, and some have phones. We are out of the kibbutz more than previously and with our families less. Our whole way of life is changing. Some of us are resisting: I've refused a TV set and a telephone...
...grandmother remarks upon arrival. "I never realized it was so close." These words imply how Ozu illustrates the incipient disintegration of the Japanese family system. Tempo, life-style, mood and environment are so different in Tokyo, that the short train trip from their home creates an in surmountable gap for the old people between their customs and the modern ways of their children. The old man looks very uncomfortable and slightly ridiculous in his Western-style travelling suit, and immediately changes into his kimono upon entering his son's house. His wife never exchanges her kimono for more occidental garb...
...Harvard runners are in top condition with the exception of Keefe, who has missed several practices due to bad health. Should any of Harvard's runners be questionable, freshman Carl Tsiginnis will be ready to fill the gap...
...Union address, "a chance to be recorded as the greatest Congress in America's history." He then recited the "six great goals" that underpinned his "new American revolution." Said the President: "If we act boldly-if we seize this moment and achieve these goals-we can close the gap between promise and performance in American Government, and bring together the resources of the nation and the spirit of the people...
When the 92nd Congress finally adjourned last week, the gap between performance and promise yawned wide enough to engulf not only the lawmakers but the President as well. Of Nixon's six goals, only one had passed as requested: his landmark revenue-sharing bill that will provide $30.2 billion to state and local governments over five years. Two others, the reorganization of the Federal Government and the creation of a national health-insurance program, never even made it to the floor of either the House or Senate. A fourth, welfare reform, was killed three weeks ago, largely because...