Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little Balkan dictatorship will not go to emulate its big brother to the east. Because of industrial and agricultural shortfalls. Communist Party Boss Enver Hoxha has decreed "a new and big fire for a chain of revolutionary undertakings in all corners of the fatherland" -in short, a "Great Leap Forward...
...spiritual misfits. Others were simply embittered by their personal experience in the church, or were unwilling to meet the stern demands of religious life. The latter reason impelled Monica Baldwin to quit the convent; she gained a measure of religious notoriety in the 1950s with her bestselling autobiographical explanation, / Leap Over the Wall. Today, in her 70s, she regrets her departure, and attributes it to "self-will and spiritual infidelity." For years, America's best-known ex-priest was former Franciscan Emmett McLoughlin (People's Padre), who left the church when his superior tried to transfer him from his work...
Last night's plague, the Bippies warned, was only the beginning of a two week "apocalypse." A plague of militant leap frogging, a plague of bubbles, and a plague on the first-born of college presidents will lead up to the Plague of Time on March 1 when the Bippies will seize February...
Vogel's story of Canton rattles along like a rollercoaster ride, with some dizzying ups and downs. The Cantonese greeted the liberation in 1949 with hope and enthusiasm, then struggled up through years of land reform and collectivization in the early 1950's. After the Great Leap Forward in the late fifties forced a heartbreaking drop in production and morale, the Cantonese began a slower, more cynical climb toward economic and political security that came to a halt again during the wild street fighting of the Cultural Revolution...
...when she observes that whatever the rhetoric of the black militants, white supremacy has yet to see its first martyr. Her criticism is no less saline. Neither the Grand Existentialist nor his angel manque can ever be the same after this Adlerian analysis: Sartre "allows Genet only the leap of accepting his destiny, of willing what is in fact the case. And to will what is the case is the essence of a staid Conservative position, so that Genet, when Sartre gets through with him, is not a rebel but a bureaucrat, doing the job Fate has assigned...