Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...where the underclass culture makes it extremely difficult to break out of the poverty cycle. Nicholas Lemann, a journalist with the Atlantic, describes the migration of unskilled Southern blacks into the inner cities followed by the subsequent migration out by those with steady jobs. He argues that the only path into the American economic mainstream involves breaking out of the ghettos...
HANDLIN FOLLOWS a time-honored Harvard path--illuminate the broadest themes of American history by covering everything. At its best, this tradition has produced Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn's Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Gordon Wood's The Creation of the American Republic. Those books covered an immense era with breathtaking skill. Few books on American history offer such a bravado assault on the origins of American society and do so with such consummate insight and originality...
...month-long campaign was marred by scattered acts of violence. Guerrillas of the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), the fanatical Maoist revolutionary group that has terrorized the countryside since 1980, shot and killed an A.P.R.A. candidate for city council in Huancayo, 122 miles east of Lima. To the southeast, near the city of Ayacucho, Sendero insurgents threatened to cut off the fingers of campesinos found with stamp marks on their hands showing they had voted. But the anti-A.P.R.A. violence did not approach the level that it was feared would result after government troops killed at least 260 prisoners last...
Handlin follows a time-honored Harvard path--illuminate the broadest themes of American history by covering everything. At its best, this tradition has produced Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn's Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Gordon Wood's The Creation of the American Republic. Those books covered an immense era with breathtaking skill. Few books on American history offer such a bravado assault on the origins of American society and do so with such consummate insight and originality...
...Primarily my interest is in Buddhist meditation....The Buddhist thing is if you see the Buddha on your path, kill him--if he gets on your way. Because if you get confused and get attached to the idea of it, cut it off, cut it down. Unlike the Moral Majority which would never cut down, never say their Christ is a stick of shit like Buddhists say Buddha is a stick of shit...