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...delightful infants are born haphazardly, of any mating, any parents, treated well or ill as chance dictates, dying as easily as they are born, and dying anyway so soon after they are born-and yet each child, every one, has all the potentiality, has it still, and completely, to leap from their low half-animal state to true humanity. Each one of them with this potential, and yet so few can be reached, to make the leap...
...made of broadening the scope of the struggle." It was a euphemistic but clear reference to the imprisonment of more than 100,000 of Mao's opponents who were not released until after his death in 1976. Ye had a similar complaint about the 1958-60 Great Leap Forward that left China's economy in a shambles. Said Ye: "We made the mistake of making arbitrary decisions, being boastful and stirring up a 'Communist storm.' " Seated on the dais behind Ye were many officials who had fallen afoul of the Cultural Revolution. Chief among them...
...added, "Any possible way of improving admissions is welcome--but you can't just leap at something because...
Most of Fabian's sex occurs inside his VanHome, a monstrous mobile house of a half-dozen rooms, among them a tack room, skylit bedroom, and stable for his horses. The VanHome and the strange sex that goes on inside it leap out as symbols of the way of life Kosinski's characters have always sought. The impregnable quality of the VanHome, its mobility and completeness, match the character of its driver. Like the sex in his bedroom, Fabian burns wildly passionate on the inside. But like the cool metal walls of the VanHome, his shell is unforgiving...
Edward O. Wilson, Baird Professor of Science, readily acknowledges that his scientific colleagues at Harvard will seldom leap at the chance of teaching an elementary science course. Even the bait of a high status Core course is not enough to lure them to face the ignorant masses. But Wilson doesn't feel that way. He presents himself as "one of a minority" among the professors in his department who has supported the Core from the beginning...