Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather this Fourth of July weekend is warm, and sunny, the U.S. people will go to their zoos by the hundreds of thousands. From New York's 251-acre Bronx Zoo to San Diego's magnificently landscaped Balboa Park, they will wander along the tree-shaded walks, peering into cages, gawking over moats, throwing peanuts to the elephants and popcorn to the bears, lolling, sweating, drinking, eating-enjoying, in sum, what is one of the most universal of summer pastimes...
...gold camp of Fairbanks in the interior also enjoys a boomlet. Most of its streets are lanes of thick dust; a third of its homes are sagging log cabins; caribou wander disconsolately in its outskirts. But 7,500 people have jammed in where 3,500 lived before, and more are coming every...
...Dante condemns the lukewarm, those "miserable souls . . . whom infamy and honor both forgot," to wander in a no man's land beyond the outer circle of hell...
Before he acted, Khoury's mind began to wander. When one close friend visited the President's house to inquire after his health, Khoury meandered into the room in his nightdress, asked "And who is this?" Once, when he was being taken to his car for a visit to the doctor, he refused to enter, saying that he must take his eggplants with...
...tragic sequence?" This passage sums up the reader's feelings perfectly. After wading through a series of nauseating images such as a basement where "guts ran knee deep," and after watching a woman 'who likes to be beaten up in bed and two men who achieve this for her wander through a section of their mutually depraved lives, the reader does not know if he has read a parody or a psychological study. If parody, it is not clearly such, and if psychological, it is pompous, muddled, and shocking just for the sake of being shocking...