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...West 139th Street a path points toward this looking-glass world. It leads first past the West Harlem community garden, where Julio Benitez and Stephen Gallagher work the flower beds and watch for mockingbirds. Of the new park Gallagher says, "We're negotiating with the state right now. If they're going to have trees and grass up there, they could let us grow some vegetables." He isn't making any predictions yet about the impact of the park, though he's quite pleased with this season's chard. Just ahead, a road crew plants pilings...
...suddenly there was more to it. Jason McDevitt after all did not simply disappear once I moved away; he took a similar path as I had. And as if that Saturday night were not proof enough that childhood lingers, the next year, the night after The Game in Cambridge, there was Jason in a parking lot near Mather House...
...shrinking from these harsh truths rather than accepting them, we follow a well-worn path to the climate of unreasoning fear and intolerance that allows this dark side to breed and create such injustices as slavery and genocide. Only by accepting the truths of the past and understanding how they unfolded can we avoid repeating our greatest failures...
...frame for gaslighted frivolities. By the time he got through with it, the U.S. stage had become electric, and had learned to accommodate native-grown murder, madness, alcoholism, dark sexuality and the howling tensions of family life. Opening the curtain on such subjects might not have seemed the surest path to public success, yet O'Neill was one of the most admired and honored writers of his time. Four of his plays won Pulitzer Prizes, and in 1936 he became the first (and is still the only) American dramatist to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...morning, noon and Nightline, there was no turning back. After failing to haul in a massive "hoverbarge" to smash open a pathway to the sea, the team said it would resort to dropping huge concrete blocks to break through the two-foot-thick ice and clear a five-mile path to open water. Ultimately, the mammoth rescue effort involved several helicopters, support vehicles and more than 100 people. While only a heart of stone could fail to be moved by the plight of the three whales, the vast resources consumed by their rescue caused some observers to scratch their heads...