Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cannon a few nights before. Out in the countryside the scent of almond blossoms filled the damp air. Overhead the sky was clear and stars shone back from puddles of water and the shallow streams we crossed. Occasionally, glowworms, kicked up by the horses' hooves, lit the path...
...Freshman tennis team bounced right back on the winning path yesterday, swatting Boston University, 8 to 1. Bayard Robb, number one man for the Yardlings, was elected team captain...
...will have fulfilled their function when once they have brought a mature higher religion to birth; and, on this showing, our own Western post-Christian secular civilization might at best be a superfluous repetition of the pre-Christian Graeco-Roman one, and at worst a pernicious backsliding from the path of spiritual progress. In our Western world of today, the worship of Leviathan-the self-worship of the tribe -is a religion to which all of us pay some measure of allegiance; and this tribal religion is, of course, sheer idolatry...
Karajan is one of Austria's best skiers, and a man who likes fast cars and high living. He first crossed his rival's path back in the Nazi heyday. He was a dark and dapper little Austrian with relentless ambition, a Nazi before the Anschluss (Karajan's part-Jewish wife became one of Germany's five "honorary Aryans"). Goebbels backed Furtwängler; Goring backed Karajan. When Karajan became director of the Berlin State Opera, Furtwängler never got over it. And when Furtwängler was the first to be de-Nazified, Karajan...
Wise discussed ERP from a political point of view, saying that the present world crisis was brought about by the war-provoking actions of the Truman administration, particularly the Truman Doctrine, and that the Marshall plan was continuing in this dangerous path...