Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Inspired by a visit to Cardinal Richelieu's tomb, Bok sees an opportunity to help steer Iran along a more moderate path, to cut off terrorism at the source and, above all, to further the goal of worldwide liberal arts education. Using back-channel communications that circumvent the office of acting President Henry Rosovsky, Bok dispatches Eliot House Master Alan Heimert '49 on a secret fact-finding mission during intersession to contact Bani-Sadr's associates...
...alcoholism. Take the national tragedy: drunkenness. People want a "dry law." At the same time all kinds of epithets reach us from the queues, all kinds of anecdotes about Gorbachev. No, we won't leave this path. I also like to drop into the Central Literary Club and have a drink. I know that letters reach us with threats, but we will not give in to these sentiments. We will save the people...
...something positive. But once he was in prison, it brought out a whole new ( set of values for both of us. In the past, he had concentrated on how to get to the presidency, and everything was just concentrated on that goal. For my part, I had followed the path of least resistance: O.K., if I have to show myself, I'll do it. But I didn't go beyond that. I didn't go beyond people I knew. I just didn't reach out. Then, all of a sudden, with my husband in prison, he was suffering...
...determination to deny reality--to isolate South African whites from the war raging around them and to hide that struggle from the world. But in the attempt to preempt what a government spokesman termed the "revolutionary onslaught" of resistance groups, the white regime is forcing the country down the path to precisely such a violent and catastrophic revolution...
...light of the pressures Kirkland faced as a ballerina, complicated by insecurities in her personal life, her path of self-destruction is not surprising. Supported by those who had a financial interest in seeing her perform, Kirkland survived on cocaine for three years, binging for days at a time, yet dancing to rave reviews. Only after six seizures and with the support of a new lover--now her husband and co-writer of the book, Greg Lawrence--was Kirkland able to overcome her addiction and temporarily leave the world of ballet...