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...eight teachers to help her with some 200 pupils, but it is Graham's own fiercely compelling personality that produces the most lasting impressions. Often she will break off an exercise, recalls a former student, "to quote a poet or philosopher if she thinks it will make us leap higher." Although she now lives in a terrace apartment on Manhattan's East Side, Graham maintains the Spartan life her arduous art calls for: no drinking, daily workouts on the barre. And she is as uncompromising as ever in her approach to her audience. "I want to make people...
...Leap Year. In London, after Michael Moore, 33, serving four years for burglary, was allowed out of his Pentonville Prison cell to marry Hazel Dunphey in a nearby church, he went through the ceremony with two police escorts watching, signed the register, kissed his bride, dashed up the aisle and escaped...
Sixteen months ago, when Red China's "great leap forward" seemed in danger of ending in an ignominious sprawl (TIME, Feb. 16, 1959 et seq.), Peking's planners decided that for the time being they would concentrate on forcing the nation's peasants into the hive life of the new "people's communes." "In the cities," explained the Central Committee of China's Communist Party, "bourgeois ideology is still fairly prevalent among many of the capitalists and intellectuals; they still have misgivings about the establishment of communes-so we should wait a bit for them...
...help? Latin America is asking only for loans, and guarantees "restitution to the American taxpayer." But aid lending "is fundamentally a political act that cannot be judged by traditional banking criteria." If help comes "too late or too little," the masses may "repudiate their democratic leading classes and take leap after leap in the dark...
Innocence. One night Phineas has a new idea-a double leap. The boys climb the tree. Phineas balances jauntily on the limb, and Gene grimly clutches the trunk.. Abruptly the athlete falls. In the minutes that follow, as Phineas is carried to the infirmary with a shattered leg, ¶Gene tries to shut away a terrifying fact: in an instant of hatred, he had jounced the limb his friend was standing...