Word: path
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Legend and the mating instinct have it that the winner of the hoopla will be the first to abandon the primrose path for the middle aisle...
...quiet was Harold Stassen, self-avowed G.O.P. presidential aspirant, headed homeward after an eight-week junket which had touched almost every country in Europe. He had spent most of his time with businessmen, or conferring with political leaders. He had seen Stalin (see PRESS). Last week, in Stockholm, his path crossed Henry Wallace's-the third of the trio. They did not meet. Said Stassen of Wallace: "I did not come here to listen to him." Said Wallace of Stassen: "Maybe he feared he would get tainted...
...Chance, the irrational number by which man confesses the failure of his intellectual algebra, may throw a man off course for a whole lifetime, and even beyond the grave. "When you have once been misled by bells tolling in the night," wrote Kafka, "you can never find the right path again...
...make a gamble of this sort requires a rare type of courage and ability. It is much easier to follow the charted ways of nationalism than it is to face the unknown paths of internationalism. Tragically the charted path has been followed before and it has always led to the same unfortunate destination. Tuesday the American Senate refused the gamble...
Conchita has evolved her own special act, which has been accepted by many orthodox aficionados. First she meets the bull on horse. Glacier-cool, she keeps in the path of the charging bull "until the last moment, then skillfully maneuvers her superbly trained mount aside. Still on horseback, she digs the beribboned banderillas into the bull's hide. Then she hops on to the ground for conventional cape work. Occasionally Conchita stoops and kisses the bull between the horns. Her explanation: "It is a gesture of triumph, like a rooster crowing over the dead body of its opponent...