Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dour West Virginia Democrat tore off his dinner jacket, rolled up his sleeves, picked up a fiddle and began sawing away. Some 1,300 hand-clapping, foot-stomping guests at the Washington Press Club's annual salute to Congress followed him through rousing choruses of Rye Whiskey, Cumberland Gap and the new Administration's anthem, Amazing Grace. "My word," cried one amused Senator, South Carolina's Fritz Hollings, "they're going to have us all born again...
...expression. As progressing years brought sweeping advances in the realm of electronic sound, Bowie's musical scope expanded. The suspension of disbelief required by his futuristic songs was facilitated by the surprise element of sounds unfamiliar to our ears. Bowie's blend of rock and myths bridged the gap beautifully, and contributed to the originality of his sound...
More Zest. By coincidence, the Church Times, semiofficial voice of the Church of England, last week underscored the remaining gap over the papacy. It ran an editorial urging the 79-year-old Pope Paul to resign and "make the way clear for a younger man with more zest." Anglican reaction to the Venice statement, however, was modestly hopeful, and Pope Paul told an audience, "We are all potentially brothers...
...painting and music. As for the public burgher, he too is shown in seedling form, as an honorable 19th century fig ure who believed that there was some thing disreputable about a poet who did not earn his own living. It is only upon examination of the spark gap of fact into idea, or material into metaphor that the author is helpless. "I cannot explain the leap from juvenile verses to Sunday Morning, " she concludes, "but we have seen many intimations of its coming." Those intimations are reward enough for the Stevens appreciator. By the final chapter the creative...
...most visible Harvard contribution, and the one that involves the most Harvard people, is the tutoring program. This fall, 60 undergraduates and graduates tutored two students apiece, or roughly one-fifth of Roxbury's 560 students. Many of the tutors had a huge cultural gap to cross...