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...country. Because the experience he speaks from is so often beyond the boundaries established for our own lives, his conclusions are often difficult for white audiences to apprehend. Recently, as popular magazines have grown more willing to publish his work, Baldwin has appeared to be increasingly conscious of the gap between his readers and himself; and now, in the Nov. 17 issue of the New Yorker, he has published an article which carefully attempts to bridge...
...gap between Baldwin and his audience by examining the advertisements that surround his prose. On one page, for instance, Baldwin insists that white Americans, equating Europe with "civilization," envied those "more elegant European nations that were still untroubled by the presence of black men on their shores." Yet, he continues, if we are not to share in Europe's decay we must "accept ourselves as we are, bring new life to Western achievements, and perhaps transform them." Then this phase of the argument reaches a climax...
Oncoming darkness threatened to hamper the efforts of both teams as Dunster toppled Jonathan Edwards 27-12. The Funsters built up an early margin and though Yale threatened seriously towards the end of the game, they were unable to close the 27-point gap...
...Deputy Prime Minister "Rab" Butler said of the civil service: "You know it's the best machine in the world, but you're not quite sure what to do with it." Thus modern Britain's needs are often widely at odds with its resources, a gap that is most glaringly evident in its educational system, which produces only 1,780 university students per million citizens-roughly Turkey's rate-v. 16,670 in the U.S. At that, the social chasm between the elite undergraduates of quasi-aristocratic Oxbridge and the more numerous plebeians who attend...
Trying to close the gap, Dunda threw nine complete passes, and Brown scored twice in the final fifteen minutes of action. But Bassett, with just one pass, kept the Crimson out of reach. Pitching from his own 22 yard line, the 5 ft. 11 in. junior hit Taylor in the clear. The right halfback then ran the remaining 61 yards for the TD without being touched...