Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During his journey across Poland, John Paul was trying to measure the great historical and psychological divide that separates this pilgrimage from his triumphal return in June 1979. His first homecoming had been spontaneously jubilant, as Poles in the millions turned out to greet a favorite son who had left for Rome eight months before as a Cardinal and come back as the first Polish Pope in history. The experience of standing shoulder to shoulder in quiet defiance of the country's Communist rulers had helped prepare the way for Solidarity's rise...
...enterprise are to be. Good luck. The self-made ceremony expresses a kind of romantic individualism (not to say, sometimes, narcissism) that wants to reclaim the event from its bloodless institutional routine and make it mean something wondrous and memorable. Marriage is, one thinks at the start, a long journey. The couple want a bright send-off at the station to think about during those interminable stretches later on, when the landscape becomes as featureless and wearying as the steppe. To write one's own vows is to think about marriage, what it is, what one wants...
Savitskaya's 1982 journey, by contrast, was an undisputed success. A flying instructor and test pilot, she is a model of physical fitness. She and two male companions successfully hooked up with the Salyut 7 space station and spent a week on board with resident Cosmonauts Anatoli Berezovoi and Valentin Lebedev. Savitskaya suffered no discomfort at all. She did, however, have to endure some heavy-handed Soviet male humor. Boarding the space station, Lebedev smilingly invited her to do the cooking and cleaning. Said he: "We've got an apron ready for you, Sveta...
Bowers, who is currently researching the interaction of insects and host plants, has been "into butterflies" since childhood. She first began her journey into their winged world during graduate school at the University of Massachusetts. She had been interested in entomology as an undergraduate at Smith, and decided to pursue her inclination to research after realizing that the life of a vet or an M.D. was not for her. She solidified her interest in lepidoptera during grad school where she could do field work on the Baltimore checkerspots...
...several days after the announcement, Harvard officials stood firmly by their original statement. Walesa's letter was quite unambiguous, they said, and in the absence of any further communication from him, they would continue to hold out hope that he would journey to Cambridge...