Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pentecostalists and Adventists, who refuse to register with the state, are routinely arrested and sent to labor camps. In the Roman Catholic republic of Lithuania, where clergy arrests might rouse nationalist feelings, three priests have been killed since October 1980 under suspicious circumstances; one was apparently pushed into the path of a speeding truck. Thousands of Soviet Jews who have been refused exit visas to Israel are also a target of KGB persecution...
...these men will represent the failure of the system to cleanse itself, indeed to carry out the imperatives of democracy. Shatila and Sabra are forever a part of Israel's past. But tomorrow's history has yet to be made; it is never too late to find the right path. Antony J. Blinken
...nagging injuries to his knee and back have blocked Rittenburg's path to success, and his future is still uncertain...
...WHATEVER PUSHES MAN along a tragic path of suffering and loss cannot be explained, remains secret, Life contains its own mysterious determinism." In the latest of the Grove Press's series on influential dramatists, Norman Berlin approaches Eugene O'Neill not simply as a playwright but as a thinker and philosopher, an anchor in early twentieth-century thought. Through detailed analysis of O'Neill's most important plays, rather than elaborate biography, Berlin skillfully presents the themes and doctrines of O'Neill's works and those he shares with Freud, Marx, Ibsen and other contemporaries...
NONFICTION: Blue Highways, William Least Heat Moon ∙ Growing Up, Russell Baker ∙ Hospital, Michael Medved ∙ In Suspect Terrain, John McPhee ∙ Isak Dinesen, Judith Thurman ∙ The Path to Power, Robert A. Caro