Word: path
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet Union will exercise restraint. But from the American people, we hope for the opposite. Critics of the President and his war policy have been too restrained for too long. As Nixon revs up the war machine and veers toward the abyss, we must place ourselves in his path. We must force the slaughter to a halt...
SOME CRITIC has said that the basic action of comedy on the stage goes something like this: boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, some obstacle crops up in their path. Boy surmounts obstacle, gets girl, they live happily ever after. Yeomen of the Guard, like almost everything in the G & S, follows the stock comic path--for the hero and heroine. Unlike the rest of G & S, though, the romantic crises in the lives of the minor characters are never resolved, and Yeomen comes closer to tragicomedy than anything else the two ever wrote...
...path, and the sky clears off again...
...Today, as our destiny has brought us here together let us enjoy the flowers as the mist lifts from the garden path, and the sky clears off again! See! The flower that had faded is fresh and lovely once more! You know, a waning moon is always much brighter than the full one that has passed! Why do you still doubt me? As careless of me as if I was just some mere passerby." --from "Kim Van Kieu...
...favorite argument about the economy. Yes, the nation is well on its way toward a strong recovery from the recession, as was shown by a full-steam rise of almost 12% in the gross national product, to an annual rate of $1,103 billion. That is right on the path toward the full-year gain of almost $100 billion predicted by the Nixon Administration. But no, the economy is not registering as much real growth as it should; more than half of the G.N.P. rise, 6.2%, simply reflects higher prices...