Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With Jesse Jackson as his guide, the patrician Reynolds dined on catfish sandwiches and grits, listened to horror stories and, holding Jackson's hand, sang We Shall Overcome. Then he returned to Washington and dispatched federal registrars to five Mississippi counties to register voters. It was a symbolic journey in a presidential campaign season: Reynolds, head of the Justice Department's civil rights division, has been a key target of black leaders who have complained for the past two years that the Reagan Administration has been delinquent in enforcing civil rights laws...
...somewhere else," he says now. "The songs were taking me over in the end. It may seem like three or four stages, but for me it was one continuous grinding journey. It led me just as near to insanity as I ever hope to get." An album recorded at this time, Station to Station, has all the scary strength of a first-draft suicide note. "Really horrendous" is the way Bowie describes the title track now, "just dreadful. It was a joyful anthem to nihilism." He had also become nuttily enamored of the "mythology" of fascism and would allow...
...continued Reagan, "who said doing a play should be educational also. He reached out. In college it was the same thing. There I played Captain Stanhope in Journey's End. I never was so carried away in the theater in my life. I was in the war as far as that play was concerned...
...next cut on the National Team is scheduled for September 15, when the 27 players will be pared to 22. The final 20 who journey to Sarajevo will not be decided until February 6. should Mark and Scott Fusco make it, they would be the first brother due on an Olympic hockey squad since 1960 when the team included Bill and Bob Cleary of Harvard...
...important role emphasizes the portrait's subtlety; on the surface the film could have been called simply Alexander, but blue-eyed Allwin as Fanny blossoms into a young adult as well by watching her brother's experiences. But Fanny is more of a silent observer. Alexander records the journey; and his recording reinforces the events themselves in affirming the importance and the reality of the imagination...