Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book has been hailed for its portrait of 'Middle America. 'Did the necessity to get that close to a man who is inarticulate and guided by mass culture to as great a degree as Rabbit require a similar leap...
...glad in a way, that I did write Redux instead of pulling ahead with it. This, again, was a bit of a leap of the imagination--I haven't lived in Pennsylvania for a long time now and this Brewer is a rather different Brewer from the one in Rabbit Run--which was based on scenes in my childhood where I knew every wrinkle in the pavement. I still felt on solid ground in this book in a way...the next book will have to be a jump in the dark...
...fact that it was leap-year day probably had nothing to do with it, but while Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath was suggesting in the House of Commons that 60-year-old Labor M.P. Barbara Castle should take her parliamentary question to one of his ministers, she suddenly broke in: 'I cannot, my dear boy." The 55-year-old Prime Minister paused, then icily informed the House: "I am not the right honorable lady's dear boy." Blushing to the roots of her red hair, Mrs. Castle sat down. It was also gaffe time in Ottawa...
With a little encouragement a man can bounce and juggle phrases all his life. That few do - and fewer still do well - may be the fault of formal education, which overstresses the discipline of sequential facts. Tired of such lock steps, the mind takes leaps - sometimes to fresh revelation. The pun is such a jump, but politicians, above all, should look be fore they leap. If puns are to be part of this year's political campaigns, it is to be hoped that the efforts will improve. Already Muskie's punning has begun to work up a backlash...
...reassembled on the spot by gentle-fingered experts in a workshed. The few visitors admitted to "surgery" find tables strewn with seeming jigsaw puzzles of painted plaster bits. One represents a blue monkey springing up through space with fingertip lightness (see second color page). The perfection of his leap sets this image among the greatest paintings of animals ever created...