Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peking's leaders take a great leap outward to modernization...
...these unprecedented events were part of an extraordinary Great Leap Outward. Departing from the rigid xenophobia of the late Chairman Mao Tse-tung. the Peking government has embarked on a policy of winning new friends, discrediting and, if possible, isolating the Soviet Union and, above all, acquiring the capital, technology and expertise to transform China into a superpower by the year 2000. Scuttling Mao's sacred precept of national self-sufficiency, China's leader have called for "a New Long March," toward modernization. There are mythic overtones to that phrase: Mao's original Long March...
...much so for a country that is still recovering from the shocks and turmoils of Mao's last years. Thus many Sinologists wonder whether the ambitions of Teng and his pragmatic followers may not eventually prove to be as chimerical as those of Mao's 1958 Great Leap Forward, when peasants were urged to smelt iron and steel in backyard furnaces. Among the problems that modernization faces...
...which threatens it, and involves you in the adventures as if you were there. Bakshi's world is merely a cartoon, somehow you can't get around that whether you know the books or not, as my companion who had never read them attested. Perhaps Bakshi asked for a leap of imagination that was too great for me to make -- Tolkien certainly asks for one that is too great for many. But there is a difference between Tolkien's subtle, literary appeal and Bakshi's visual ultimatum...
What is the attraction? Most jumpers tell you they made the first leap to see what it was like or to prove something to themselves, to overcome that perfectly sensible fear of diving from an airplane into a void above the hard ground. If they stay with it, and perhaps only 10% do after the first scary jump or two, they develop what Kim Adams, 31, a graduate student in anthropology at Rutgers, calls "parachuting personalities, incredibly independent, uninhibited." Sky diving becomes a way of life, infinitely challenging, indescribably energizing...