Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some people mistrust collections of essays on the ground that they are often fragmentary and monotonous, but it is precisely the diversity of Levi's pensees (artfully translated by Raymond Rosenthal) that makes them so entertaining. That and the basic quality of Levi's mind, skeptical but sympathetic, a bit melancholy but witty; one feels that he is a friend. About all those beetles, Levi speculates that they may be the creatures destined to take over the postnuclear world. "Many millions of years will have to pass," he writes, "before a beetle particularly loved by God . . . will find written...
...along, the wail of sirens was the week's background music, as ambulances ferried the sick to hospitals. Such efficiency was another sign of the students' organizational abilities: while central Beijing ground to a standstill because of the crowds that thronged to the square, the demonstrators, using packing string and their own bodies, cordoned off lanes so the ambulances could always get through. Many hunger strikers made the trip out; almost as many came back to resume their fast once they felt well enough...
...forbidding gap between private lives and that distant sense of a common ground was first bridged on April 26, when 150,000 people flooded the square to show disapproval of an inflammatory People's Daily editorial that denounced the students. "That was a major breakthrough in Chinese modern history," says Roderick MacFarquahar, director of Harvard's Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. It marked the "first time since 1949 that a demonstration by society against the state was made successfully in the face of a powerful government...
...other serious charge against Wright--that he evaded House limits on outside income through bulk sales of his book to groups to which he had delivered speeches--was believed by panel members to be on solid ground, Torricelli said...
Perspective usually comes in time. Someday Boston Red Sox fans will forgive Bill Buckner for letting a ground ball slip through his legs in the sixth game of the 1986 World Series...