Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Higginson has been experimenting with his crew's start this past week. Today Harvard will probably start at a 45, settle to a 41 after 15 strokes, and settle to a 35 for the body of the race. Higginson wants the crew to get a real leap on the opposition early in the race...
After several attempts to catalyze a strong commitment to Affirmative Action on the part of the Administration, women employed by Mother Harvard took a giant leap this week to mobilize support for a permanent women's organization...
From such mind-boggling ideas it is a short leap to wilder spec ulations. The overwhelming majority of scientists would probably agree with Mathematician Martin Gardner that "modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses." Says Harvard's Owen Gingerich, who is an astronomer as well as a historian of science: "There might be noncausal things in the world." He adds that it is only people with tunnel vision who "think our science will go on in a lineal, explanatory fash...
Olitski's "break-through" -- the sudden leap from mediocre early work so characteristic of modern painting -- occurs in 1964 with paintings like Deep Drag. Here Olitski turns to a rectilinear ordering of the forms: the circles are still there, but they have been driven to the edges where they interact with long, brushed forms to shape out a composition clearly accepting the limits of the frame. (Eventually those circles will be reduced to thumbprints on the smooth field, and finally can be observed as mere drops.) Olitski's characteristic banishment of all drawing to the edges of the canvas appears...
Commodity prices frequently fluctuate in reaction to arcane events. For example, one reason for the leap in soybeans is that schools of Peruvian anchovies for a while mysteriously disappeared from the Pacific. As hardly anyone but a commodity trader would guess, that removed from the market anchovy fish meal-the only product that competes effectively against soybean meal for animal-feed protein. Last winter, a Manhattan investor bought some orange-juice futures on the calculation that "all I need to make a profit is two hours of frost in Florida." It did not happen, and he lost...