Word: wandering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Director Claude Lelouch's un abashed romanticism brought A Man and a Woman to within an inch of the border between sentiment and sentimen tality. In Live for Life, he crosses over the line - and back into the land of the Woman's Picture, where men must wander and ladies must weep, alone. The movie's hero is a bored, lecherous French television reporter (Yves Montand) who perpetually roams from his aging wife (Annie Girardot) on journeys to the Congo or the Orient, searching for stories. Though he apparently has his pick of every female in Paris...
About 25,000 of the traumatized Chinese have descended on the sleepy West Borneo port of Pontianak, where they live in dismal squalor. The Chinese are crammed into makeshift quarters, bathe in muddy, sewage-filled canals and wander aimlessly along the waterfront, many of them without homes or hope. Pontianak's Communist propagandists could easily use these displaced Chinese as a breeding ground for more unrest and tension...
...sixth grade onward. At Harvard College, about seven-eighths of the students go on to some form of graduate or professional work; but at present, close to a fifth of the students drop out at some point for a term or more. They may take a job or wander about, possibly get their Army service over with, and then ordinarily they return with stronger motivation and refreshed energies, to graduate and to go on to the next step in their careers. Partly they seek to break the routine of study in this way, but many also want the opportunity...
...TRUTHFUL HARP by Lloyd Alexander, illustrated by Evaline Ness (Holt; $3.50). A prizewinning team tells a story, with more text than most picture books, about a young king who fulfills his secret wish to wander the countryside as a bard and learns thereby many truths...
Instead, most begin by floridly invoking the help of what at least one refers to as "the Great Legislator of the Universe." From there, they wander. A wordy example is Louisiana's 1,000-page backbreaker, which gets into such minute areas as declaring Huey Long's birthday forever a legal holiday. Georgia's offers $250,000 to the state's first discoverer of oil. California's exempts from taxation certain "fruit- and nutbearing trees under the age of four years." Such details belong in the statutory code, not the constitution...