Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Confronting futility, Cioran neither yields to the absurd nor makes a sudden leap to faith. Instead, he adopts a perilous, intentionally irrational balance designed to sever the roots of reason. Since all life is futility, he contends, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational act of all. For once man sees through his fictions, there can .be no rational basis for living, a judgment that recalls Camus' point: the only philosophical question is suicide. "I subsist and act insofar as I am a raving maniac," Cioran writes. "It is by undermining the idea of reason...
...achieved under capitalism should be a fact of great theoretical significance for any nondogmatic Marxist. It is precisely this fact that lies at the basis of peaceful coexistence, and it suggests, in principle, that if capitalism ever runs into an economic blind alley, it will not necessarily have to leap into a desperate military adventure. Both capitalism and socialism are capable of long-term development, borrowing positive elements from each other and actually coming closer to each other in a number of essential respects...
...just the right moment in the music Daltrey and Townshend both leap into the air arms and legs wide stretched...
...Trudeau says that he is very close to his aging mother, with whom he lived in the family's large brick house in Outrement until about three years ago. When asked why he has never married, he once replied: "I've never been asked, but this is leap year, and I'm still young." Trudeau's friends think that he will eventually marry...
...Maritime inboard powered by two 475-h.p. Mercury engines, Odell Lewis was worried not so much about winning as merely staying afloat. A draining, plug had popped out of Mona Lou's hull; when Lewis pulled into Nassau to refuel, he had to leap overboard and plug the hole with rags to keep the boat from sinking. Finally, after 10 hr. 54 min. of whomping on the water, during which he averaged 54 m.p.h., Lewis crossed the finish line to win the $10,000 first prize by a margin of only four seconds over Runner-Up Bill Sirois...