Word: leapers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DAYS swing onward, galumph-galumph, students leap from their carrels out into the snowless Yard ("I am not a prodigious leaper, I am a bird"). Lights burn late in House rooms ("Look at it this way, Silas, Louis Quinze is to the Pompadour as you are to..."). Some seek recourse to the warm reassurance of love not dependent on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhilaration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this...
...Marie De Angelo, 24. Soloist, Jeffrey Ballet. A fiery, flamboyant crowd pleaser and a prodigious leaper, California-bred De Angelo revels in bravura solos. Trained in San Francisco by veterans of the Kirov Ballet, she wants to dance classical story ballets like Giselle, "an ultimate goal for me." Her height (5 ft. 1 in.) has caused some shortsighted ballet masters to overlook her. Says De Angelo: "I've never felt short...
...York at Stony Brook, John Fleagle, discovered the latest pieces in the jigsaw puzzle, four fragments of humeri, or upper-arm bones. Until now, it had been assumed that Aegyptopithecus swung through trees as modern monkeys do, but the humeri show that it was not a swinger or leaper, but simply walked on all fours from branch to branch...
...those 16 foot vaults was against a Northeastern pole-vaulting squad sporting a 15' 9" leaper, prompting Stowell to comment, "He always beats the man he has to, and is our most consistent performer. The better the competition, the better he does...
...days swing onward, galumph-galumph, students leap from their carrels out into the snowless Yard ("I am not a prodigious leaper, I am a bird"). Lights burn late in House rooms ("Look at it this way, Silas, Louis Quinze is to Pompadour as you are to..."). Some seek recourse to the warm reassurance of love not dependant on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid, would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhileration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this exam...