Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conversations at these parties wandered far from their starting points of science fiction, and late at night often ended up weighing the merits of different types of birth control, or considering the possibility of Maine seceding from the U.S. and forming an independent nation with Canada's maritime provinces. As the parties broke up, fans continued to wander up and down the corridors and sometimes formed "elevator parties," simply remaining in one elevator as it traveled, continuing to talk and drink...
...that enticing British accent, which in a Harold Robbins film guarantees class. I have never seen Robert Duvall give a bad performance before, but here he acts alternately demented or disinterested. He rattles off paragraphs of exposition without a change of expression, and during several "tense" confrontations, his eyes wander. Even his moustache looks half-hearted...
...eloquences of Middle English and exotic intrusions from the Arabic. It contains a million and a half quotations to show the historical progress of language, the way its vocabularies have stirred, matured in meaning and eventually decayed. But the logomaniac's great joy in the O.E.D. is to wander through it looking for the glint of old coins: sippet, maumetry, floscule, gimmer, the wonderfully dark deathbird and night...
They do not have to wander far for inspiration. From their old wooden porch, the couple can see Lake Washington through the trees; their garden borders on the large Leschi Park, which is only a five-minute drive from downtown. Often the Wrangles go hiking in the nearby Cascades, and Dick roams the lake shore watching daily the mallards and fishermen...
...restraint, the means by which human beings exercise their freedom. David's comparison of Claire's natural goodness with his own tormented personality suggests a kind of Calvinist philosophy in which there are the elect, those visited by natural grace, and those outside the pale who are doomed to wander in the shadows, vainly seeking salvation in each new relationship...