Word: leap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Mao and Lin have somewhat consolidated their victory in the Politburo, many have tried to speculate when the frantic activity in China will end. Some observers see in the Cultural Revolution the germs of another abortive push toward impossible economic quotas such as the Great Leap Forward of the late 1950's. But Party directives have cautioned the Red Guards to strive for "cultural" improvements and leave the economy alone...
...Oldsmobile. When the Japanese invaded the Philippines after Pearl Harbor, the stage was set for another leap in the Marcos legend. Called to duty as an intelligence officer, 2nd Lieut. Marcos required only a few weeks to become a hero. His idea of intelligence duty was to prowl behind the Japanese lines?often in his personal Oldsmobile sedan?probing for weak spots. He found one on Bataan's Mount Natib: a Japanese military battery that was lobbing 70-mm. shells into U.S. General Jonathan Wainwright's beleaguered defenders. Marcos and three privates scouted the battery, trailing two bearded Japanese artillerymen...
...aesthetic illusion. When painting, an artist creates this illusion through color, composition, and form. By representing an imaginative setting far removed from any ordinary view of everyday life, or by using paint to interpret a subject in very personal terms he can force his viewer to make an inventive leap into the emotional context of the painting. The artist can also use visual illusions of space to encourage this inventive leap. A frame, for example, gives the picture an illusion of infinite space behind the picture frame, as if the frame were a window looking into the painter's imaginative...
...also dismissed any serious problem of antagonism toward such a leap in Harvard involvement in Cambridge affairs. The City's people are always suspicious of surveys, he said, but in this case none of their money will be used, and he can foresee only beneficial effects...
...version has it that Mao during his recent six-month absence from public view was being urged by President Lui Shao-chi to refrain from an other Leap Forward. Mao, so the story goes, enlisted his own wife to whip up support for him. She, in turn, recruited Lin Piao to Mao's cause...