Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston Marathon happens to finish in Boston, but except for the last four miles it has little to do with Boston proper. The route is a journey through commuter country. You spend the first half of the race on Rt 135, which has a string of aliases: East Main Street, Union Street, Waverly Street, West Central Street, East Central Street, and Washington Street...
...past 170 years, thousands of devout Hispanic Roman Catholics have spent Good Friday tramping along roads that lead to Chimayo, a sleepy New Mexico village known for the sacred earth upon which the Santuario de Chimayo sits. Many of the pilgrims carry crosses on their journey, but this year they may feel inclined to brandish signs that say TOURISTS GO HOME! The source of their ire: New Mexico's tourism department, which is hyping the local shrine as the "Lourdes of America" in full-page ads in a dozen slick magazines, including Travel & Leisure, Holiday and Southern Living...
After another coffee break (don't want to fall asleep during an inner journey), we had another try at mediation. For this session I sat on the floor rather than in my chair, and had more success. Despite their suits and their Discman, Steve and Larry did seem to be onto something...
Though Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives (Knopf; 1,081 pages; $35) runs a densely written thousand pages, detailing the two lives stage by stage, not everything comes clear. Most readers willing to take the long journey will hope that Bullock's exhaustive analysis of the biographical literature and newly opened archives might somehow explain what caused Hitler and Stalin. There was something inhumanly dark and cold in both leaders that made them willing to do literally anything to fulfill what they felt was their mission...
...author plays the whole journey by ear; he frequently does not know where he will stay or where his next meal will come from. This lackadaisical attitude drowns out any political insights that Maushard might have gleaned from the trip. Instead, he dwells on satisfying his primal urges for women and devotes considerable effort to describing how desirable each one he encounters...