Word: path
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand...
Like most Fundamentalists, she believed that God intervened directly in her life to help her on the path to righteousness. In her case, she had wanted to go to Oral Roberts University and she had all the qualifications requisite thereof--good grades, good extracurriculars, good interview, a belief in the correct religious dogmas--but for some inexplicable reason, the good folks at ORU saw fit to reject her. So she went to Creighton, met a lot of good people, began to learn about life and see God's place in it. Finally, one day she had a divine revelation...
...Seashore has a visitor center in Eastham which is helpful, interesting and attractive. Also in Eastham, and part of the Seashore, are Coast Guard Beach and the Red Cedar Swamp. There is a path through the swamp which few people know about even though it is publicized at the visitors' center, well worth the hour it takes to walk...
...society does not live up to conceptions of justice we learn about here. Students' experiences at Harvard set patterns for the rest of their lives. And at Harvard, one is taught not to look around, but, instead, to get a head start on the isolated path to "success"--a lonely path traveled by the individual, not the group...
...articles he wrote for The New Yorker, Ved Mehta traces the corrosive effect of unchallenged political power during what he calls an "Orwellian passage of time." Mehta, who was born in India but has lived in the U.S. for many years, recognized from the beginning how dangerous a path Mrs. Gandhi had chosen. By her action, he wrote, "she risked making it possible for politicians, much more ruthless and power-hungry than she, one day to dislodge her and perpetrate abuses of power previously unimagined...