Word: path
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mapped out the geography of the environment from battlefront to suburban home front from Main Street to Madison Avenue. And the inner man has been heavily depth-probed by Proust, Joyce & Co. Novelist Kaye's book suggests that the novel of the future may take the path of myth and mystery, allegory and fable. For too long, the true has been confused with the real or the merely realistic. In its deceptively unpretentious way, Kaye's book is an emancipation proclamation for the nonrealistic novel...
...course of distinguished careers, both men prepared themselves for the roles they were to play in their quarrel over radar. After their participation in Word War I each followed "a characteristic path" in slipping out of pure science and into politics, Snow said...
...faked his man, then got off shots whirring with English that flicked wickedly off the backboard and into the basket. When the need arose, he simply used his football lineman's build (6 ft. 5 in., 235 Ibs.) to overpower any player foolish enough to block his path. In the first quarter alone, Elgin Baylor, 25, Negro star of the National Basketball Association's Los Angeles Lakers, scored 15 points against the hapless New York Knicks. At half time, he had 34. By the third quarter he was up to 47, and even the most jaded fan hidden...
...literally, samadhi means 'deep sleep,' satori means 'awakening.' Mystically, of course, 'deep sleep' means entering into Real Life, whereas the Awakened one 'lives like one already dead.' But cynically speaking, it is less risky and more pleasant to choose the Zen path-to live in Nirvana rather than be dead in Nirvana...
...lamps are set pointing upward at angles that mark out the glide path. When the pilot makes the proper approach, he sees on each side of the runway two bars of lights. The near group is white, the far group red (see diagram). As long as they stay that way, he is doing all right. But if the white lights turn pink or red, he is approaching too low. If the red lights turn pink or white, he is too high. He has plenty of time to get in the slot. Even with brilliant sunlight competing with the lights, they...