Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...veteran of zero gravity moves effortlessly and with total control... In contrast, the rookies sail across the same path, usually too fast, trying to suppress the instinct to glide headfirst and with vague swimming motions. They stop by bumping the far wall in precisely the wrong position ... they twist around too rapidly, knocking loose cameras, film magazines, food packages and checklists...
...somehow, India avoided both a descent into chaos and an authoritarian military backlash, fates so tragically familiar to observers of underdeveloped nations. In managing to stick to a moderate middle path, India remains the "miracle" of the Third World and the largest democracy in history. The Indian Army deserves the largest share of credit for this unique situation...
Once on his feet, he saw that the sloping path was studded with broken pots. Examining some of the fragments, Young, who is now dean of the law school at Hamline University in St. Paul, sensed that he had taken a fortunate fall. "It looked like the kind of pottery kids make in elementary school," he says. "There was no glazing, and the clay was lumpily fused. But there were painted patterns on the clay of a sophisticated design. I had never seen anything like this in Thailand...
Calvino did not start his literary career as the Rod Serling of the novel. His first major work, The Path to the Nest of Spiders, was part of the Italian neo-realist movement that emerged from the wreckage of Fascist Italy. Two thirds of the stories in Difficult Loves comes from this period from...
Ironically, the first of those teachers, and the founder of a faith now known for its warlike strength, was a gentle sage who preached a code of pacifism. Declaring "There is no Hindu, there is no Muslim," Guru Nanak forged a path between the two warring religions, drawing followers from both, when he created Sikhism in Punjab at the end of the 15th century. Two centuries later, however, Guru Nanak's teaching of religious tolerance was radically redirected by the tenth and last of the Sikh gurus, a skilled horseman and dauntless fighter named Gobind Singh. With his people...