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...cultural gap between the United States and India is directly responsible for some differences. The most obvious of these is the segregation of the sexes. Very little contact between male and female students takes place on any level. Students would be shocked to see a boy and girl talking casually on the street corners, while, in India, a boy taking a girl's right hand would indicate his intention to marry...
There is a growing awareness, heightened by De Gaulle's offensive, that past attempts to close the payments gap have been mere palliatives - and that the problem has begun to undermine U.S. influence around the globe...
...could draw on nearly unlimited local supplies of women, "Princeton, which enjoys none of the social or geographical privileges and accidents of the other Ivy League schools, has a need for more varied entertainment opportunities." Apparently, the Council felt the extra three hours of parietals weekly would fill this gap...
...With the passing of Sir Winston, we have the first gap in our Great Society...
Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase was bought in 1913 for only $350. Now valued at $250,000 by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, it is perhaps one more example of the public catching up with revolutionary art. But its technique of multiple exposures bridges the gap between Muybridge's galloping horses and Gjon Mili's stroboscopic studies of dancers. And even Du champ's greatest folly-dropping pieces of thread on the canvas and varnishing them where they fell-dramatized the importance that chance plays in painting, and seems an extraordinarily lucky hunch...