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...paid him on the first and third Monday of the month, and he kept running out of money before the fortnight was up. Last week he not only failed to get an expected raise; he got no wages at all. His enemy, the calendar, had caused a three-week gap between paydays. He went home broke and disgruntled. There was nothing but macaroni and butter beans for dinner. He choked them down. But he rose during the night with a glitter in his eye, got his wrench, opened four hydrants and let every drop in the town...
...than resort to arrangements. For a year and a half he searched the libraries of Europe, turned up some surprising finds, e.g., harp music by one of Bach's sons, by Beethoven, Handel and Faure, as well as by early Spanish and French composers. That still left one gap: the moderns. To fill it, Zabaleta began badgering living composers to write for the harp. So far, six concertos have been dedicated to him, including compositions by Milhaud and Villa-Lobos...
...gap between a intellectual community and Main Street will always exist because people think a university concerns itself with ideas and inquiry instead of day-to-day practicalities. In Harvard's case, this gap has widened into antagonism. This can best be seen spread over the Letters to Editors column in daily papers and in the statements of many elected representatives of the people in the State and National legislatures. If the gap widens in the next few years as it has in the last, it may result in withholding of governmental contracts and use of the University's state...
...dean was sensitive about his age. But his ability greatly impressed senior professors in the school, and they quickly helped him hurdle the gap in his formal education. Now a mellow 37, Keppel is recognized as an authority in his field...
...wanted to leave his Greek converts as free as possible of the old Jewish Law, he says, other leaders at Jerusalem insisted that all new Christian converts be circumcised, or at least adopt Jewish rituals. It was Peter, says Theologian Cullmann, who eased these requirements and bridged the threatening gap between Jewish and Gentile Christians...