Word: path
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...incidence of Catholic divorce that is nearing the national average of one out of four, priests and lay people are seeking-and rinding-compassionate solutions that often clash with church law. What is more, many of them are publicly defending such departures from Catholic practice as the inevitable path that the church must take...
...century after he completed the bulk of his work, Ives is generally acknowledged as the greatest, certainly the most original of America's composers. A fierce, patriotic innovator, he combined the best instincts of Edison and Whitman; he was the first important American to pioneer a musical path outside the European tradition. He was once thought of, erroneously, as a kind of Grandma Moses of music, an untutored primitive breaking all the rules without realizing it. Ives broke the rules all right, but only after having mastered them as a Yale music student. "I found I could...
...defense has claimed that Anderson injured his eye when he fell off his motorcycle after swerving to avoid hitting a police car that had blocked his path...
Like everything else at Harvard, the two cultures of romanticism and realism have roots in the past. The doctrine of the preprofessionals is a recapitulation of the harsh imperatives of the Mather brothers, increase and Cotton, whose fire-and-brimstone Puritanism set a precedent for perseverence along the path of industrious virtue. Henry Adams did not attend law school, but his description of his education here is now heard repeated every day while passing through the streets of Harvard Square: "Harvard College, as far as it educated at all, was a mild and liberal school, which sent young men into...
Maybe so, but to a good many Europeans these days it certainly looks as if the two leaders are pedaling down the same path, if not doing a little hand-holding on the side. Since coming to power within two weeks of each other last May, Schmidt and Giscard have chatted weekly by telephone (sometimes oftener), got together to discuss defense and foreign policy four times, mapped new plans and programs for the European Economic Community, and established a working relationship that is almost as informal and candid as if they were members of the same government...