Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pravda sneeringly called it a "Holly wood panorama." Indeed, President Johnson's Asian odyssey did at times seem more like a Bob Hope extrava ganza (The Road to Manila?) than a diplomatic errand of potential historic significance. The star of the show basked in all the attention he was getting from Hawaiian hula dancers and Samoan chieftains, spear-brandishing Maori warriors and confetti-throwing Aussies. His hand was puffed and bleeding from countless handshakes, his voice hoarse from scores of official and unofficial speeches, his feelings bruised by catcalling Vietniks and placards bearing such slogans as THE YELLOW ROGUE...
...went out of control after having passed over a grate in the road and smashed into a pole. Both occupants were wearing seat-belts, and New York City Police said that this saved their lives...
Time was, any concert soloist worth his cadenza had to spend several long, lean years on the road building a reputation. Today, budding virtuosos are rerouting their careers to take advantage of a new short cut to instant success: contests. More combat than competition, music tournaments have grown in size and importance to the point where there is a contest among contests, each one claiming to be more prestigious than the next. But when it comes to money, none can match Fort Worth's Van Cliburn International Quadrennial Piano Competition, which offers a top prize...
...into the entourage of Mme. de Warens, a sprightly young matron and Catholic convert who was easily able to induce her young lover to accept the old faith. Later, when Rousseau wanted to resume the hereditary rights of a citizen of Geneva, he had to forswear his conversion. The road to and from Rome was equally painless; he was his own religion...
Genius v. Vanity. After a stretch as a seminarian and a valet, Rousseau moved to Paris, where he lived as a music copyist. Somewhere along the line, tramping the road to Vincennes, he underwent a sort of religious experience, and concluded that revealing the truth about himself would reveal the truth to all other men. It cannot be said that he was very good at it, though the poetic cloud with which he haloed his life story is luminous to this...