Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appealing solutions to an electorate, frustrated by the problems accompanying the dramatic economic, demographic and political trends changing the nation. He is now failing because those answers were only temporary pain-killers for a structural illness. Now, some of Reagan's more popular critics are running down the same path, courting disaster by proposing alluring but irrelevant cures as simplistic as the policies they are meant to counteract...
While there is no official Harvard policy regarding academic refugees, most dissidents currently at Harvard credit individual departments or professors with smoothing their path to Cambridge. In the case of Polish poet Stanislaw Baranczak--now an associate professor of Slavic Languages--Professor Donald Fanger, then chairman of the Slavic department, contacted Baranczak directly in Poland in 1978 to recruit him as a replacement for a retiring professor. Baranczak immediately encountered difficulty in obtaining his exit visa, but he kept in contact with the department for three years and through six unsuccessful visa applications...
...seem now, however, in the early 1950s, real Black popular music was almost never played on "while" radio stations. There was considerable consternation a few years later when people like Pat Boone started issuing Bowdlerdized 'cover", records of Black rock songs, and we all know where that path eventually led: to Chubby Checker and the Twist, to the Beatles, Mick Jagger, Woodstock, and that cradle of national decline-- "sex, drugs, and rock and roll...
...seem now, however, in the early 1950s, real Black popular music was almost never played on "while" radio stations. There was considerable consternation a few years later when people like Pat Boone started issuing Bowdlerdized 'cover", records of Black rock songs, and we all know where that path eventually led: to Chubby Checker and the Twist, to the Beatles, Mick Jagger, Woodstock, and that cradle of national decline-- "sex, drugs, and rock and roll...
...seem now, however, in the early 1950s, real Black popular music was almost never played on "while" radio stations. There was considerable consternation a few years later when people like Pat Boone started issuing Bowdlerdized 'cover", records of Black rock songs, and we all know where that path eventually led: to Chubby Checker and the Twist, to the Beatles, Mick Jagger, Woodstock, and that cradle of national decline-- "sex, drugs, and rock and roll...