Word: leaps
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...both conventional Victorian morality and the urgings of the heart. But what is poor Frederic to do? Given a half-deaf nursemaid who apprentices him to a pirate instead of a pilot until he is 21 years of age and a birthday which falls with inconvenient quadrennial regularity on Leap Day, he acts as any Gilbert and Sullivan character worth his salt is bound to: he follows every absurd proposition out to its invariably illogical conclusion...
...selling price of a barrel of crude will buy as large a quantity of Western imports as it did in, say, early 1974. To oil consumers that argument seems extremely specious: the early 1974 terms of trade were achieved after a 400% jump in oil prices, and that leap caused no small part of the Western inflation that OPEC complains about. Even so, John Lichtblau director of the U.S. Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, contends that a 3% to 7.5% rise in oil prices would give OPEC members as much import-purchasing power as they have ever had. OPEC statisticians...
...audience, it enjoyed a Brahms and Stravinsky program and a sound of startling clarity and brightness that seemed to leap off the stage. The music did not have the warm mellowness of venerable Carnegie Hall, nor did it seem to have enough bass on the left side of the main floor. But other conductors and orchestras will provide the ultimate test of those qualities: the cerebral Boulez is not a man for lush sonorities, and the Philharmonic still sounds brasher than most, undoubtedly because of their struggle in the old hall...
...effortless quality that marks great technique is missing; with few exceptions, the dancers of the company don't finish their movements, are off in their timing by that fraction of a second, fail to spark the pattern with the extra inch of height or breath in a leg or leap...
...read What Really Happened without trying to figure out the answer to the puzzle. What did really happen to those wealthy adolescents that turned them into a massive, collective dropout, that took them off the technocratic track? Some suggestions leap into the mind: dependence upon doting parents, whose goal was to give their golden children everything they hadn't had themselves; disillusionment with the values of a system that forced them to worry about the draft after raising them to think that other people did the dirty work; realization that they couldn't meet the expectations of the adult population...