Word: leap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...implication that Father James Groppi's militancy is responsible for riots and the present lack of an open-housing ordinance in Milwaukee [Sept. 15]. His militancy seems to be the most positive force for improvement of conditions for the city's Negro population. You charge that he "leaped into the issue"; while your previous statement says that the issue had been proposed for debate in city council five times, and had five times been refused. Action following this could hardly be termed a headlong "leap." Your solution is that either Father Groppi cool off or that the white...
...engage them in battle and then whirl back to the landing pads of the Air Cav "golf course"at An Khe in the Central Highlands to await the next alarm. Brilliantly executed, the assignment helped to turn the tide against the Communists. The Air Cav carried out 53 major leap-and-strike operations in 52 weeks ranging from the la Drang Valley near Cambodia to the coastal plains of the South China Sea, killing 5,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers and capturing another...
While this explanation is simple enough (until you throw in leap years and such), the ramifications are manifold. Foremost is the delay of the Yale weekend to Thanksgiving vacation. This situation has arisen before: the last time by the calendar was 1961, then more recently in 1963 when the assassination of President Kennedy occasioned a postponement...
...what, after all, could be a more fitting philosophy than transcendentalism for the Beatles, who have repeatedly transcended the constricting identities foisted on them by press and public, whose whole career has been a tran scendent, heel-clicking leap right over pop music's high Himalayas? On the basis of what they have achieved so far, it would be rash to dispute George when he says: "We haven't really started yet. We've only just discovered what we can do as musicians, what thresholds we can cross. The future stretches out beyond our imagination...
...appreciation of man's transcendence, argues Pike, can lead to an empirically based faith in the hereafter. As evidence, he cites experiments dealing with the plausibility of extrasensory perception and clairvoyance that have persuaded him, with only "a modest leap of faith," that "personal survival of death is a fact." Fact though it may be, Pike warns that too much speculation about the mystery of heaven, hell and the afterlife leads nowhere: "It is here and now that we are called to learn, to work, to love, to enjoy-and to grow. There is in this view of things...