Word: leapings
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Students claw at their carrel-tops and calculate ("If I read 800 words a minute, sixteen hours a day, I will finish the reading by August 20th. But if I read 800 words a minute for seventeen hours...."). Cold fact asserts itself through sleep-drugged minds ("Gazelles cannot actually leap; they are merely very poor flyers"), until fact and fancy no longer collide but merge like an icy cancer spreading over a Roast Beef Special ("If the Atlantic rose and drowned all the gazelles there might not be any Harry Levin...
Inspiring as such examples seemed in print, to the level-headed men charged with running China on a day-to-day basis-from factory managers to government bureaucrats to party officials like Liu and Teng-it looked like the Great Leap Forward of 1958 writ large in madness. By its do-it-yourself backyard-foundry mania, Mao's Great Leap had cost China several years of economic growth. The new revolution was to be far more encompassing, and it also threatened the technocrats' jobs. In a factory run by Mao-think, who needs a manager or even...
...notions of expertise and turning instead to Mao-think. The New China News Agency reported that "China reaped the biggest grain crop in its history this year." (Western experts calculate a shortfall of 5,000,000 tons in the Chinese harvest for 1966.) The Agency also cited a "new leap forward" in iron and steel output as a result of "a mass movement to storm the technical citadels...
Blow-Up. An open Land Rover loaded to the head lamps with deliriously screaming people roars through London town. Painted and caparisoned in madcap masquerade, they leap down from their green go-devil and race through startled crowds like advance men for oncoming chaos. They crash into pedestrians, jostle a Guardsman on sentry duty, all but knock down a pair of passing nuns. Finally, they gang up on a baby-faced brat (David Hemmings) in a convertible Rolls, a mod bod with a pop mop who has plainly gained the whole world without losing his cool. He flips the revelers...
...existence. Whatever value the formula once had, says Dewart, it no longer accords with contemporary philosophical conceptions of being, which limit the word to knowable, created things and to men. Moreover, Christian belief is not an intellectual acquiescence in the idea of God as Supreme Being, but involves "a leap of faith"-an act of total self-commitment to God as a transcendent reality who is at once absent and present to man. In the future, Dewart argues, Christianity might not conceive God as a being-which means, literally, that God does not exist, since existence is a property...