Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is a credibility gap beginning to emerge," says Young, "and there are forces saying that the cause is hopeless, that American white people are so selfish that they will remain silent in this crisis, or that the American white people are congenitally immoral and so bankrupt that it is futile even to try to bring about change. I don't believe this, but not because I think that a large number of Americans are going to get more moral. They are simply going to get more intelligent...
...leadership gap is in fact the ARVN's greatest difficulty. Where able officers still lead, South Vietnamese units fight well. But able officers are all too few, and the rest are often chosen for their social position or their political ties-and often, too, become preoccupied with the graft that has long been part of an officer's perks in Asia...
There must have been a gap of at least ten seconds between Pediatrician Dr. Benjamin M. Specie's announcement of his possible presidential candidacy and the beginning of the jokes-like how he would turn the Pentagon into the Triangle and replace the rifle with the burp gun. Increasingly active as a speaker and marcher against U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, and co-chairman of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, the Great Pacifier told a press conference in Washington that SANE in 1968 "will energetically support" an antiwar candidate, even if he has to run himself...
...Gap. Above all, the performers go to learn contemporary music from the men who compose it. In the small, baldheaded, intense figure of Henze, they confront a man whose intricately structured atonal writing has placed him in the first rank of European composers (TIME, May 24, 1963). "We give the composer and the performer the greatest possible contact," says Mario di Bonaventura, the Dartmouth music professor who directs the program. "It gives the performers an edge of confidence. They can always say, 'I played with Henze, and there's no doubt that I know how to play this...
...intentions, explaining why parts were written as they were, identifying errors in the printed score-it was clear that he was learning too. "If a musician asks me 'Why this?' and explains why it is difficult for him, he teaches me," says Henze. "There is a gap of understanding today between the composer and performers. Most composers don't care what kind of human being plays the music, and they make it too often senselessly difficult. If a musician insists that a passage is unplayable, I'll alter it. Nowadays, when everything is done by machinery...