Word: path
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like a mountain village in the path of a gathering avalanche, the world helplessly awaited the approach of one of the least promising international conclaves in history. In all probability, the results would show that seldom have so many traveled so far for so little in terms of progress achieved...
...many Protestants, monkishness was an aberration of Catholics and should remain so. But over the years, most of the opposition has given way to interest and approval. Editorialized Paris' daily Le Monde: "Taizé contributes to leveling the psychological and doctrinal obstacles that history has strewn in the path of Christian unity." Taizé's brothers (average age: 30) are currently either Lutheran or Calvinist...
...Philip Johnson was majoring in Greek and philosophy, but the piece on modern architecture came as a revelation. It had been written by a young Vassar professor named Henry-Russell Hitchcock-a man who was to become famous as an art scholar, and who inadvertently put Johnson on the path of becoming one of the most unusual architects...
With Regrets. Powers began his birthday by pleading "Yes. I am guilty" to a 4,000-word indictment. Acknowledged as a spy by his own Government, he obviously saw cooperation with his captors as the only path to survival and dutifully professed his penitence. In jail, he had been allowed to talk to no one but his captors, had seen no Americans. "I understand that as a direct result of my flight, the summit conference did not take place," he said, "and President Eisenhower's visit was called off. I am sincerely sorry I had anything to do with...
Never in recent times has a presidential contender of either party earned, wheedled, extorted-and perhaps deserved-such handsome press notices as were flung like roses in Kennedy's triumphal path at Los Angeles last week. The cartoonists were still having trouble capturing their man, though they were trying hard (see cuts). But the big journalistic guns of the convention-the political columnists-all thought they knew Kennedy, and they liked what they saw. Joseph Alsop, who wears gloom like a toga, was very nearly radiant. "The Senator," he wrote, "has a peculiarly effective public personality, with a strong...