Word: sprang
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Hillel also recently supported a BSA protest against The Bell Curve. In fact, the Wednesday meeting had been planned by the two groups far before the Martin incident sprang...
This blatant association of "girlish[ness]" with an ability to formulate well-reasoned, logical opinions resonated loudly with the previous day's debate. Here was an unambiguously negative use of a term denoting femaleness, in which the negative implications sprang from the very gender being invoked. One could not ignore the gendered root of this word, without losing the idea it was expressing: that certain people acted in a way characteristic of young females, by arguing a point in an irresponsible, giddy manner...
Presley was funky and unbridled, passionate and rebellious, respectful of the maverick traditions his music sprang from but proudly, defiantly new. His singing tapped and trapped that mysterious, wondrous thing at the heart of American popular music. Sam Phillips, who recorded all Elvis' early sides for his seminal Sun Records, called that elusive core the place "where the soul of man never dies." Presley would never have put it in such high-flown terms. When That's All Right, Mama became a hit, he simply let himself be borne heavenward in the great celebrity updraft. hurry home, he wired...
This mystique made Lancaster, who died last week of a heart attack at 80, the first modernist movie hunk. He sprang to prominence in the emotional chaos after World War II and was a star in his first role, as the doomed Swede in The Killers (1946). Immediately viewers could spot a gritty urban charm, brooding good looks, a handsome physique. He made the most of this charisma in The Crimson Pirate, an ebullient homage to Douglas Fairbanks that drew on Lancaster's own acrobatic skills, and later as the consummate con man in both Elmer Gantry (for which...
...Harvard BRAIN sprang forth from the Undergraduate Society for Neuroscience during the spring of 1994. "Our first issue was a great success," said Fred S. Soo '96, co-chair of the society, "There's a lot of enthusiasm...