Word: picnicing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Route 6A then runs through West Barnstable, Barnstable, Yarmouth, Dennis and Brewster. On a sunny day with no wind, Sandy Neck beach in Barnstable is perfect for a picnic. Even in April it can get warm enough to tempt some into the water. For those who can think of books and vacation at the same time, the Parnassus Bookstore on Route 6A in Yarmouth is a fine second-hand book shop...
...Charlotte Perkins Gilman Series, aimed at providing an outlet for social science research on women, has attracted audiences of about 150 people at the first two lectures. In addition, the forum oversees class events, including the recent junior parents' day, and a sophomore picnic planned for the spring...
...victims, people hate to cancel a picnic on account of rain, and yet they often cheer when the weather brings human activity to an abrupt standstill. Very few people are like Blaise Pascal, who insisted: "The weather and my mood have little connection." Most feel that the weather indeed affects their moods, and yet a gloomy day does not necessarily mean a gloomy disposition for all: a book before the hearth, an afternoon of tinkering in the basement or an extended visit to the local bar pleases some people as well as the brightest sun. And at least one study...
...cope with it. "There is no doubt," she wrote in 1932, "that angels rush in before fools." She amplified this view on another occasion: "No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden." Her style was difficult and sometimes, in its defiance of syntax and even grammar, infuriating. In 1955 Punch effectively parodied the Bowen manner: "She lit the sodden stub of last night's fag and took a sip of gin and meth...
...blinding light or voice from heaven for Clive Staples Lewis; but his conversion on that picnic excursion had some of the impact of St. Paul's. The ruddy-faced writer's works were to lure innumerable souls into the precincts of belief. Fourteen years after his death at 64, this Pascal of the Space Age is the only author in English whose Christian writings combine intellectual stature with bestseller status...