Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were more curiosities to come: Spiritual Music from New England tune books of the late 18th century, richly melancholy Negro spirituals, then a leap to Charles Ives' quirky but equally spiritual Three Harvest Home Chorales-still sounding sonorously dissonant and as futuristic as ever...
...Great Leap. Many aviation men are convinced that there is. For the past few years, they have fought vigorously-and lately with increasing success-for a new system of flight control that may answer many, if not all the problems: area navigation or R-Nav (short for random navigation). In the opinion of many aviation experts, widespread use of R-Nav would be the greatest leap forward in aerial navigation since the early 1950s, when the U.S. first set up its present air corridors by crisscrossing the country with radio beacons or VORs (for very-high-frequency omnidirectional range...
DANCE DOESN'T EASILY take the lead in the arts at Harvard, but when Rika Burnham steps on stage, as she did Monday night with her three dances entitled "Curved Wind," she stole lights, music and drama--taking dance with her to the top in a stunning leap. Her fellow dancers gave more than adequate support, as did the musical sections composed by David Evans '75 and played by H.R students. Rika's Dance showed what four years of dedication and concentration can be--even at Harvard, where dance is a field of concentration, still with a small...
...program does not lack for humor: "Celestial," the last of the three parts, breaks the more serious, introspective mood of the preceding works with a jab at ballet and even at rock dancing. From the wings leap blue-jeaned, mod T-shirted dancers to the classical strains of Tchaikovsky while simultaneously, pastel lights expose large cardboard stars, ringed Saturn, a large puffy white cloud, and a smiling crescent moon dropping down from the heavens. When the mock Corps de Ballet appears together--barely a semblance of unity--they cause bursts of laughter by purposely bumping into one another and getting...
...this point, any non-Brazilian begins to wonder what in the world is going on. The answer: capoeira (pronounced cap-oh-wcry-rah), a combination of folk dancing and self-defense that has become a national craze. Along the beaches, in parks and at festivals all over Brazil, enthusiasts leap, fade, swing and sing in the country's first truly national folk manifestation. Capoeira pervades nearly every aspect of Brazilian life, from pop songs and poetry to sport and even formal receptions for state visitors. It resembles a super-athletic ballet, its deadly blows precisely calculated to miss...