Word: path
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visitor approaches Darling's house today, he is confronted by a bewildering jumble of wild colors. He walks along a cement path adorned with Oriental mountains, and climbs a porch whose walls are filled with the birds, bears and skunks of Yellowstone National Park. He passes through a Mount Fuji screen door and walks upon upside-down rugs that glow with still lifes. He sits in a leatherette armchair covered with a rushing river in an idyllic field of gold, and rests his feet upon a footstool that depicts a deep green forest. On the ceiling, he sees snake...
SOBs attest that the path winding along in Dad's footsteps is often mined with humiliation, self-doubt and acrimony. For example, Rick Cardullo, 29, whose father owns a restaurant in Harvard Square, the Wursthaus, joined the business upon graduation from high school. He lasted six years. "I just wanted to get away from here," he recalls. "I gave my father notice-four months' notice, in fact. But no matter how you leave your father, it breeds hostility. He didn't speak to me for over a year. When we communicated, it was through his lawyer...
Father Can does not deny the economic hardships endured by the North Vietnamese nor the existence of widespread dissatisfaction with the lack of essential goods. But he concludes the path followed by Hanoi was a necessary...
...long ago, U.S. highway builders simply picked the path of least resistance and let the concrete flow. They favored public parks because such land was cheaper and no relocation of people was needed before the bulldozers went to work. But things are changing fast: a grass-roots revolt is stopping highwaymen from freely paving the land -especially parks...
Other right-wing libertarians took a similar path. The head of the University of North Carolina's Conservative Club resigned to become an active New Leftist; an entire YAF chapter at the University of Kansas voted to become an SDS chapter; the head of YAF at Brooklyn College became a left-wing anarchist; and an Ayn Randist who had spied on SDS in New Jersey for the House Committee on Un-American Activities became a member...