Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House aides have clearly been instructed to cut back on their contact with journalists, an effort to restrict leaks to those most carefully planned beforehand. And even if you squeeze into an appointment with the president--in this case with a good deal of last-minute luck--the path to the Oval Office is a torturous...
...ignores repeated warnings from angels who had urged him to repent and assured him that God would forgive him. The female voice of the good angel floats down from a microphone hidden high in the rafters, while the male voice of the evil spirit, always urging Faustus along the path of godlessness, rises from beneath the set. Lucifer has won. Faustus will roast in hell forever and taste the everlasting effect of his daring to take the path which seemed so completely to lead to the satisfaction of his yearnings...
...some ways Medford seems like a throwback to a 1940s movie. The path leading up to the public library is lined with rosebushes. Ask the young waitresses at the Copper Kettle if they can put up a pair of box lunches for a fishing trip, and the reply is a cheerful, "Sure can!" Cars seem miraculously well preserved. There is almost no snow in the valleys of southern Oregon. No snow, no rock salt to eat away fenders and underbodies...
Until then, they don't understand why what they're doing right now is important. They have trouble identifying the main thread. The professor knows the whole story already; he's been anticipating the punchline since the first lecture. The way he retraces his path is by no means the way you would go exploring it for the first time. The students and the professor are by necessity operating at completely different intellectual levels and neither has the freedom to move closer to the other...
...exhibit which opened yesterday at the Boston Museum of Science is different. "Creativity: The Human Resource" is a tribute to a process, not an end. It examines how people get somewhere, not where they are going. In diverging from a well-traveled path, its designers have tackeled a task which is, in itself, creative...