Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...return of Dean Rosovsky to the chairmanship of CHUL undoubtedly accounted for the difference. Unlike Francis M. Pipkin, associate dean of the faculty, who allowed discussion at meetings to wander far afield of the specific issues confronting the committee, Rosovsky conducted a business-like meeting, exercising firm control over the direction of debate...
Emptied of human life, Basse-Terre now resembles the post-atomic spectacle of the movie On the Beach. French Tricolors flutter unattended in the breeze. The traffic lights are still on, but jammed on red or green. Goats wander the streets and chained dogs howl in hunger. Others, having broken their bonds, forage in the grounds of the Saint-Claude Hospital. A large poster in Basse-Terre announces that the Tivoli Cinema is showing Hell Is Empty. Yet in the town of Saint-Claude, halfway up the slopes, there remains one elderly couple that refuses to leave. Says Dorome Cherize...
...Washington visitor with time to wander in the cathedral this summer will find continual surprises. More than a thousand kneeling cushions, each in elaborately individualized needlepoint. Stone tributes not just to biblical heroes but to Sören Kierkegaard, David Livingstone, Albert Schweitzer and Jane Addams. Even a carved snake in the choir with a caricatured head of Hitler. A space-age window in which a sliver of a moon rock is encased. On the roof, growling gargoyles, and on the lawn, an oversized gilded bronze statue of Washington astride a horse...
...recent proliferation of clubs. In San Francisco, the Keystone Korner, El Matador and the Great American Music Hall are jumping nightly with finger snappers. Boston has a floating musical bistro called Jazzboat plying the harbor on two sold-out weekly cruises. Around New Orleans' Bourbon Street the crowds wander in and out of clubs that open onto the sidewalk. They can hear anything from driving Dixieland to the attenuated sounds of progressive jazz. In New York there are more clubs than at any time since...
...close to 300 lbs., and looks like he should be playing a sadistic murderer in some pornographic movie. He doesn't do too much--mostly he just stands around with a portable radio glued to his ear. Recently, he seems to have gotten into sunbathing. Occasionally Radio Man will wander over to Holyoke Center, but he is pretty much a stationary object...