Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...footer with a quick smile and a head that sometimes failed to come down from the clouds. He was a tackle and later quarterback and captain of the Beaufort High football team, which won a state championship--despite Smith's tendency during practice sessions to let his eyes wander to any aircraft that might be cruising above the field...
...small halfway houses where the mentally ill and homeless could help one another get back on their feet. It is a helpful suggestion, but no one answer will solve the problem. In all likelihood the problem will never be solved. But so long as we encourage the homeless to wander from shelter to steam vent, we are not helping them; we are forsaking them...
...typical day at Harvard, 6500 undergraduates wander through the Yard, filling lecture halls and libraries in pursuit of their sacred degrees...
...reproduction, one of many. And though even a reproduction of a great painting can have a powerful effect, there is something magical about the uniqueness of the original, the knowledge that Rembrandt applied his brush just here, nowhere else, and never again. Or somebody did. So we wander into that philosophical bramble patch at the edge of the legendary forest where the legendary tree falls and nobody is there to hear whether it makes a sound. Is the famous Etruscan warrior whom the Metropolitan Museum declared a fake some years ago any less handsome than he was back when...
Even though the book starts out dull with a fairy tale about the discovery of Texas, it hits high gear after about 50 pages. From then on, all of Michener's characters wander through, Texas history like threads around the core of a baseball...