Word: path
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, the Council asked that DPW commissioner Francis W. Sargent withhold any decision on the Belt route until the Council had reconsidered its policy. It has been reported that Sargent would pick a path before the beginning of December...
...planners told the Council and the audience that they had real doubts as to the need for the eight-lane highway. But simultaneously they warned that "there's going to be a Belt Route through Cambridge" and that the City must take a forthright position on the least harmful path...
...middle-aged widow who has sent friends and bigwigs thousands of copies of a book attacking the FBI. Ever since, the G-men have been following and harassing her. She wants Nero to make them lay off. The fat genius plunges in, following a tortuous, tightly plotted path until a nifty stunt finally traps two agents breaking and entering his house. With that for leverage, he can "push in J. Edgar Hoover's nose" and get the FBI off his client's innocent back...
Died. Randall Jarrell, 51, U.S. poet and critic, professor of English since 1947 at North Carolina University in Greensboro; of injuries suffered when he apparently "lunged into the path" of a passing automobile; near Chapel Hill, N.C. An amusing satirist, he took deadly aim at academic pretension in his novel Pictures from an Institution and at the "goldplated age" of "spoon-fed culture" in A Sad Heart at the Supermarket. But his poetry (The Woman at the Washington Zoo) revealed an altogether different world, "commonplace and solitary," filled with terrified, lost souls finding refuge from loneliness only in Proustian reminiscence...
...than in his address before delegates, heads of state and foreign ministers at the United Nations Speaking in French (one of the five official U.N. languages), he-perhaps intentionally-overstated the world position and role of the U.N. "This organization," he told the delegates "represents the sole and only path of modern civilization and of world peace." He applauded the wisdom of the Assembly in opening its membership to new nations, and pointedly urged the U.N. to "strive to bring back among you any who have left you, and seek a means of bringing into your pact of brotherhood...