Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third characterization of the scientific process. that if one waits. one may witness "an instant of the 'inductive leap'," is arguable. This eureka vision of science rarely holds trus in a profession where one plans series of experiments in advance and where individual projects take many months...
Part two closes with "Jump Jump," which makes the necessary quantum leap in order to escape the world he has been surveying. Though decrying Les Miserables as "too serious," he accumulates similar artistic visions from all around him--Van Gogh's. Cezanne's--which represent something lasting and attractive amidst the cool cruel world; he shows the way to escape through art to a higher reality. Dedicating the song to John Lennon makes the statement even more powerful: Even death does not stop the music...
...home to the Soviet threat abroad, the Reagan Administration announced the largest-and most expensive-peacetime military buildup in U.S. history. The five-year plan would more than double the current defense budget, pushing it from $171 billion in fiscal 1981 to $367.5 billion in 1986. The first big leap in new spending authority would be a 16% jump between now and 1982, costing $32.6 billion. Over the full five years, the money sought would total $1.5 trillion...
...flaws. The break between Lisa the patient and Lisa the victim is too abrupt; she seems transformed less by analysis than by the demands of her author's design. But this novel is a reminder that fiction can amaze as well as inform, that an imaginative leap can sometimes take flight. Thomas' talent almost matches his worthwhile ambition: to fuse the dreams of self with the nightmare of history. -By Paul Gray...
...overland voyage from Giza's pyramids to Jerusalem's Wailing Wall used to require a leap of the imagination for Egyptians and Israelis. Today, as a result of normalized relations between their countries, they can make the journey by car or bus across the Sinai in a few hours. Last week Cairo Bureau Chief William Drozdiak made the crossing and sent this report...