Word: path
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most eloquent convincing and popular expression, dramatically pitting John Proctor, the skeptical but self-respecting hero who would not save his life by making a false confession, against people like the Reverend Samuel Parris, who "believed he was being persecuted wherever he went," cutting a "villainous" and bloodstained path into the history books...
...sensational former best seller as one more overstock stacked in mounds around a remainder bookstore. Last year the film seemed so alive, so intense, so involving. "Escaping down 59th Street to Central Park," I wrote, "rerunning the film in our minds, two of us followed a silent, twisted path around boulders and lifeless trees. The fog joined nearby buildings into solid walls; the isolation, the desolation, were nearly as great as the initial feelings engendered by the film." This week, with showings of the film stuffed in between showings of another, there won't be time for the emotions...
...heavily Democratic Washington, D.C., where most future Watergate trials are likely to take place, former Presidential Appointments Secretary Dwight Chapin, who stands accused of perjury, has already blazed what will doubtless become a familiar path. In support of a requested change of venue, Chapin's lawyer put a black psychiatrist on the stand to testify that the city's 71% black population has "widespread feelings of hostility and rage" toward the Nixon Administration. Judge Gerhard Gesell dismissed Chapin's petition as "an affront to the jury system." Another criminal expert, Stanford Law Professor John Kaplan, takes...
...receives the Democratic nod next Saturday, DiCara will still have to wage war with incumbent Davoren in November. But if he beats Davoren, the path could be cleared towards higher offices; the secretary of state before Davoren was Mayor White. DiCara says, "Anyone who doesn't believe that people in public life should move up the ladder are saying what they want is an aristocracy where a seat is passed on by a political club." He also freely admits he doesn't want to be secretary of state all his life, though insisting that he can only...
Over the past half-century, Russia's readiness for democracy can only have diminished. I am inclined to think that its sudden reintroduction today would be merely a melancholy repetition of 1917 ... So should we not perhaps acknowledge that for Russia this path was either false or premature, and that, for the foreseeable future, Russia is destined to have an authoritarian order? Perhaps this is all she is ripe for today. Everything depends on what kind of authoritarianism lies in store...