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...fair play won a victory that force could never achieve. Last week 10,000 African miners were back at work and a nationwide general strike was averted because a British Prime Minister whom they trusted coupled a warning ("Mob rule will not be permitted") with a rare promise: "The gap between black and white standards of living must be narrowed as quickly as possible...
Twice this season Snooks Kelley's Eagles have narrowly topped the Crimson. But that was before B.C. lost high-scoring left wing Jim Duffy and before the varsity gained last year's high scoring freshman Billy Cleary. These two personnel changes should close the gap between the clubs...
...tragedy of a modern Western man's education, in Dawson's estimate, is the gap in his learning and understanding between the classical ages and modern times, between Plato and Isaac Newton. The gap was created, he thinks, because medieval culture was so intertwined with religion. Since Renaissance humanists were tired of religion, and later European scholars thought that religion had no business anywhere outside the church, they all either ignored or missed the fact that the so-called Age of Faith was in fact the formative period of their own culture...
...College Boards pass the Monro proposal, the scholarship will return to its prime purpose. Designed to fill the gap between the student's available funds and his expenses, the stipend will no longer be used as lure, often forcing a man to make a decision based on financial preference alone. And the colleges, in awarding more scholarship to more students will benefit by using what has now become wasted money. Monro's clearing house will stop the scrambling and ensure that the successful applicant will always get enough, but never more than enough...
...thoughts ... he was a monster . . . His women are all strumpets, and his men all banditti, with the action of galvanized frogs, the dress of mountebanks, and the hue of pestilential putridity . . ." There is something terrifyingly timely in Fuseli's nightmarish mysticism. In some ways, Fuseli bridges the gap between the 18th and the 20th centuries; his shrieks and murmurs carry across the Victorian era (which merely stopped its ears) to the present. In several paintings and drawings all called The Nightmare-whose principal characters are variously a monstrous dwarf, a leering horse and a recumbent maiden-Fuseli seems...