Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Khrushchev may perhaps be walking down a path that leads eventually to madness, but he is not a madman now, any more than he is the bumbling buffoon that the West first imagined him to be when it observed him on his hamming, hard-drinking trips abroad in 1954-57 with then-Premier Nikolai Bulganin...
...Doctor Zhivago, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak once wrote: "How hard this life, and long my way of stone." Last week, the indomitable man who succeeded in creating some of modern literature's most eloquent testaments to the unconquerable human spirit came to the end of his stony path...
...some 60,000 youngsters shouted, waved banners and threw stones outside the Diet build ing. The Premier was trapped for eight hours before he could slip out a back way. But most participants seemed to have only the vaguest idea of what they were protesting.-"The pact opens the path to fascism." explained one demonstrator vaguely. Girls shouting "Yankee go home" were shocked at the very suggestion that they were anti-American. Americans watching the demonstrations were never molested, and one "angry" crowd politely waited while a flustered marine guard finally got the embassy gates locked before surging forward...
Last week Lou Kahn found himself unhappily pinpointed in the limelight. At the National Institute of Arts and Letters, Eero Saarinen awarded Kahn the institute's prized Brunner. Award as "a man who has used his superior gifts to tread the hard path of discovery rather than the easy way to success." A few days earlier Kahn had been present at the dedication of the $3,000,000 Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building on the University of Pennsylvania campus, about which Architect Philip Johnson predicts, "When this is finished, Kahn will be world-famous...
...while still in the U.S. A few days after his Stevenson visit, he told a Mansfield, Mass, editor: "I do not know what to do. This is important information but I was told not to publish it." Said he last week: "Mr. Adlai Stevenson is walking slowly in the path of truth. In his first denial he seemed unaware of my visit to him and of the conversations we had. Now he recognizes having met me. I do not contest the right of Mr. Stevenson, like any politician, to change his mind. Today Mr. Stevenson regrets his declarations...