Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hushed Madison Square Garden, lithe (6 ft. 5¼ in., 190 lbs.) High Jumper John Thomas, 18, loped forward, kicked his right leg at the roof and rolled over the bar at 7 ft. 1½ in. to make the mightiest leap in history (indoor or out) and break his own record...
...past seven years have been generally commendable. Dr. Pusey was far less a creature of the flaccid fifties than President Eisenhower, of our political capital; one must look abroad to find a match for the scope and imagination of the Program for Harvard College, since the "Great Leap Forward" is its only contender. We have thrown up our fat, white hands and decided that Mr. Bundy is neither a wicked man nor a bad dean...
...economy was producing at an alltime high last week. Industrial production, which rebounded in December from the steel strike with the second biggest leap since World War II, was up to 165 on the Federal Reserve Board index. This month it should easily break through the record rate of 166, set last May and June. Reflecting the new vigor, railroad carloadings for the week of Jan. 9 were up 7.4% over last year, 22.5% over the preceding week; truckloadings were 8.6% above last year, 35% higher than the week before...
...Sisyphus he confronted a still greater enemy: the universe itself. "In a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger." Yet named man, he said, must not abandon the struggle against the irrational and pitiless place that he inhabits. Camus rejected both the Leap of Faith, which begs the question, and the suicide which follows logically from despair. The hero of his existential battle gets one lucid glimpse of the finality of his situation, realizes that he is an incongruity in the universe, and then rebels against it with all his being...
With his genius for making light and darkness speak, Rembrandt surrounds the entire scene with a deathly shadow, concentrates the light mainly in Jacob as that moment's vessel of God's will, and then makes it leap and pour goldenly past the dark head and hurt eyes of Manasseh upon fair-haired Ephraim, who shines like his grandfather...