Word: wandering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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People who come from the not-so-pretty streets of Cambridge must sometimes wander into the Yard, and read the names; they must sometimes wonder at the strange incongruity of it all. In another life, Ernesto "Che" Cuevara might have wandered into the Yard, cigar in mouth, and wondered. Or he may have been a student here, performing the strange dance, and then maybe he wouldn't have. Che Guevara was killed in Bolivia ten years ago today. He was trying to start a revolution...
Worthy said hospital officials tried to force the tenants out of the building by turning off their heat and allowing a large German shepherd to wander in the hallways. Calling such actions "institutional imperialism," he said more people should organize and fight in similar situations
Till now Diane Keaton has been able to wander down a Manhattan street with out drawing more than an occasional half-suspicious stare. She lets herself be kept waiting for two hours in a Southern California beach restaurant because the maitre d' cannot imagine that this tall, apologetic young woman in sunglasses and floppy clothes is someone who might merit his attention...
...months before he died with a needle in his arm. To the '70s consciousness, the specific grounds for Bruce's arrests seem absurd. He said words like "shit," "penis," "asshole" and "cocksucker," but he did not do so on television. He didn't cut records, he didn't wander the streets mouthing dirty words at 12-year-old girls. He used the words in a nightclub act, talking candidly about sex and about how absurd it was that words like "fuck" and acts like fucking were considered obscene when it was alright for children to watch bloody killings in movies...
WHEN JESSICA MITFORD was a young teenager in London, her governess used to drag her to Hyde Park on Sundays. She would often wander over to where the soap-box orators held forth. One day, she heard someone sing the Internationale, and misunderstood the words. Instead of "the final conflict," Mitford thought the song referred to the class struggle as "the fine old conflict...