Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When we see people who are competitive enough to get in here, everyone is beating down the path to that person's door," says senior admis- sions officer David L. Evans...
Still, the ban's elimination might pave a new path for the program, and would certainly eliminate most opposition...
...subtitle of Eliot Berry's shrewd and knowledgeable TOUGH DRAW (Holt; $25), an account of the 1990 and '91 pro tennis tour, sounds like Dink Stover at Yale: The Path to Tennis Glory. Ignore this; Berry, who was a good tournament player as a junior, writes about tennis almost as well as Roger Angell writes about baseball. Here's his take on Jean Fleurian, losing a tough one to Pete Sampras: "If the Frenchman could have imagined winning, he would have won." He nails Ivan Lendl's monstrous adequacy: "Antonio Salieri in a sweatsuit." And he quotes...
...applaud these trends, because they stand in healthy contrast to the shamed repudiation of Africa and everything African that dominated our thinking as recently as a generation ago. It was not until the civil rights movement set us on the still unrealized path to first-class American citizenship that we could feel proud enough of ourselves to embrace an ancestral homeland that had long been equated, in our minds and those of whites, with backwardness and degradation...
...image that has stuck most stubbornly to Dan Quayle from the 1988 campaign is that of a deer caught in the headlights: a helpless thing frozen in the path of destruction. In Houston, however, Quayle labored -- with some success -- to transform himself into a snarling attack dog, on the model of such G.O.P. vice-presidential nominees as Bob Dole and Spiro Agnew. Before the largest prime-time TV audience he has addressed, Quayle abandoned his attempted oratorical gravitas and delivered a withering attack on what he has called the "liberal cultural elite," which he has targeted to help distract attention...