Word: leape
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kafka who invented the castle as literature -- the Prague castle of his novel being the symbolic seat of mysterious, anonymous power, an effect the Communists had a genius for. That Havel came to preside over the castle seemed the Czechoslovaks' graceful, transcendent leap out of the dark, a sort of miracle -- and an impish historical touch...
Gates, the chair of the Department ofAfro-American Studies, said students will choosethe texts in his Afro-Am seminars next year. Buthe said he would leap at the chance to do a"critical reading" of the Nation of lslam's book...
...When divers leap for Olympic perfection off the open-air platform in Barcelona, their performances will be rivaled by the view -- by cable cars moving past Columbus on his column pointing to the New World; by the crown of thorns of the 13th century cathedral La Seu; by the unfinished confection of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, its eight towers reaching to the sky even as the divers speed downward, trying not to make a splash...
From what I have heard and read from a distance, it seems that the University has yet to make the quantum leap to enlightenment (or, at least, to mutual understanding!). We believed this might happen over the course of the past three years, but it seems that horizon was more distant than we had thought...
...took a springy leap of the imagination on the part of Rogers and other Labour masterminds to see their former member as President. But Labour was tired of its minor role in politics. Says Rogers: "The idea was to get a woman of such quality -- her strength challenged the status...