Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rock was, of course, the leading art form, andone that took a quantum leap with the Sgt. Pepperalbum. Critics and bull sessions passionatelydissected that album, and succeeding ones by theBeatles, the Stones, The Doors...
...This leap of illogic failed to take into account Bev's outstanding work with RCS, the skill required to coax musical excellence out of inexperienced singers and the enthusiasm with which Boston-area critics, players and audiences receive Bev's concerts, as well as her fine international reputation. Did anyone imagine that she was invited to England, the Scandinavian countries or Poland to enjoy miles of shimmering tropical beaches? The want of security prompted her to initiate an outside job search. To her credit, she was considered for several of the nation's top positions and, unlike many junior faculty...
...students a great deal of freedom. The residents of this community thoroughly detest the new arrangement, in part because they realize the impossibility of the desired outcome. By randomizing the houses in such a hostile environment, Dean Jewett has dismissed undergraduate protest as immature self-interest. Randomization, the Great Leap Forward for the social engineers here, should be revoked...
...realizing that they were helping their children and children's children. "People have to make short-term, identifiable sacrifices in exchange for the promise of distant, diffuse and amorphous benefits of a stronger, healthier economy," says Martha Phillips of the Concord Coalition, an antideficit group. "It's a big leap of faith, and what's amazing to me is how many people are willing to make...
...tempting to interpret the court's impulse to roll back the authority of the Federal Government as a leap aboard the new conservative bandwagon of devolution. The move, however, has been brewing in the court for years, led by conservative Justices. Because the ruling's impact will depend on the court's inclinations, it may be too soon to say whether the Lopez ruling represents, in the words of Yale law professor Bruce Ackerman, a "constitutional moment" -- an epochal period when the court realigns itself with a deep shift in prevailing political philosophy-or rather, as Ackerman's Yale colleague...