Word: pathways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With his forefinger chopping at the microphone, Thurmond told his listeners that what they had to fear was "a new kind of police state with all power centered in Washington." Cried he: "There are forces at work in this country today which would lead our people down the same pathway to the total state that was traveled by the people of Germany, of Italy, of Russia. Harry Truman, Tom Dewey and Henry Wallace are birds of one feather. All three are kowtowing to minority blocs by advocating the so-called civil-rights program. This time they can not fool...
...such a generally gloomy atmosphere, some speakers had little advice to offer. But one whose advice seemed to make sense was the University of Iowa's President Virgil Hancher. Said he: "Somewhere along the pathway of progress the art of contemplation has been lost. The Society of Friends, certain Roman Catholics, and an occasional mystic or band of mystics have preserved the art. They retain anchorage in a sea of ceaseless motion, of disquiet and drifting. You can make it a rule of life to withdraw each day into quiet and contemplation. You have but one life...
Lining the pathway from Widener Library to the Yard, the students will make way for the official procession, headed by Reginald Fitz '06, University Marshal, and Louis E. Boutwell, Sheriff of Middlesex County...
Since then, Composer Hovhaness, now a tall, cadaverous 37, has left Bach behind and discovered what he calls a "pathway to the lost music of the ancient world." In Boston he writes music that might have been composed 2,000 years ago in his father's native Armenia...
Then, with his arms round the shoulders of his grandnieces Ava and Manu, the knobby brown man shuffled weakly down the red sandstone pathway leading from Birla House to the vine-covered pergola which served as his prayer-meeting place. Slowly he climbed the three steps leading to the pavilion. A stocky young man in grey slacks, a blue pullover and khaki bush jacket stepped forward and knelt at Gandhi's feet. He was Nathu Ram Vinayak Godse, editor of the extremist newspaper Hindu Rashtra, which had denounced Gandhi as an appeaser of Moslems. "You are late today...