Word: path
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shape of the book is a personal odyssey. It is launched when Thompson, now 35, quits his job at York University in Toronto and heads out to visit the "prophets" who arise in times of stress "to reformulate the traditional path through the mazeway of nature, self and society." As a historian, he knows that the implications of great societal upheavals like the Industrial Revolution were first grasped by "crazies" like William Blake, whose ideas gradually percolated down to artists, savants and finally pedants...
...most direct path to take, but it's all that's open to us and it's better than nothing," Wexler said...
Following Mercury's path around the sun, Mariner will again pass by its target next Sept. 22. If the spacecraft's systems are still working, it will send back even more information...
...Meanwhile, Onoda set up a series of hideouts across the 74-sq.-mi. island, stealing food to keep alive and keeping intact several caches of live ammunition. Over the years, Onoda and his men are suspected of having killed at least 30 Filipinos who came upon their path, and wounding 100 others...
This mini-five-foot shelf will not be the last word on Faulkner. The valuable tools of scholarship have not cleared a path toward the subject; they have built a fortress around it. What the hook's appearance signifies, however, is that the people whom Faulkner referred to as "academic gumshoes" have asserted their clammy hold upon him. In graduate classrooms across the country, students now will be required to read the book. Sad news, that, not only for Faulkner and his readers but for such writers as Pound, Eliot and Wallace Stevens, whose "definitive" biographies have...