Word: leape
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Once upon a time, women weren't allowed in Lamont and Neil Armstrong could take a step for Man and leap for Mankind without fretting too much over whether his statement was gender-neutral. In those days, a student sat at his desk to write his paper on the history of mankind. A few weeks after he handed in the paper, this student's professor said to his class, "If anyone wants to, he can pick up his paper after the lecture." The student received his paper, was satisfied with a Gentleman's "C" and went to a Final Club...
...colorizing as a good thing. Waking from the prolonged childhood of the '50s (when Ike was the omnipotent dad), America attended to the culture bubbling under its consciousness--to rhythm and blues, to Lenny Bruce and Redd Foxx, to Lolita and Lady Chatterley's Lover--and took a heroic leap into the enthralling unknown, the flourishing of art, the liberation of race and gender. Yet it can also be argued that the opening of those emotional pores brought a more debased culture: drug epidemics, teen pregnancy, splatter movies, penis-size jokes on every sitcom, Marilyn Manson and Monica Lewinsky. Perhaps...
Though Pilates studios and instructors have greatly benefited from the attention focused on the routine in the past few months, problems have also arisen in the industry. As any Ec 10 student knows, with a leap in demand comes a concurrent leap in supply, and the suppliers are in a bit of a quarrel. John Gallagher, a physical therapist and businessman, trademarked the Pilates name, making it more difficult to open an official Pilates studio. Many instructors have navigated this obstacle by opening Pilates-based facilities and choosing to incorporate the ideas of Pilates with modern information on anatomy, physiology...
Similarly, this year's playoff results do not approach the woefulness of the sweeps in 1988 and 1990. Note: I regard the 1995 season, in which the Sox were swept in three games by the Tribe, as a sacred, marvelous aberration, a magnificent stardust leap from oblivion to glory. Hence, I will generally refrain from discussing it here...
...evolutionary leap was achieved last week. Herewith, a brief history of the lollipop...