Word: roam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STRANGE NOTION: people living "inside a flattened cylinder fifty metres round and eighteen high," bounded by hard rubber walls, pulsing with shadowless yellow light, oscillating between extreme heat and cold--"abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one." A first reaction: as if among an audience, hearing a doubtful line, you are tempted to snicker, until looking around you see all the rest staying silent and sober, and the glint in the speaker's eye refusing to lighten his dead...
...Maybe we'll go down to Mexico and up through Canada," he said. "We'll just roam around, stay a week at each place. And whenever we're on the read and feel like stopping and goofing around...
...officer. "Many of their attacks are for pure game, mostly done on the spur of the moment." Says Trevor Gibbens, forensic psychiatrist at the University of London and the author of several research studies of girl offenders: "Girls who used to grow up in relatively sheltered homes now freely roam the streets just like the boys have always done. It is a natural result that, in becoming equal, they have become equal in all areas, including violence...
Necessities of Life. Goodman's solutions were often visionary, even outlandish, but some were the forerunners of today's social programs. Long before some psychiatric reformers advocated closing down the old-style mental institutions, Goodman argued that the inmates should be allowed to roam the countryside as "local eccentrics or loonies." Years before Richard Nixon, among others, proposed a guaranteed minimum income, Goodman urged that the necessities of life-food, shelter, clothing, medical care-be provided free to everyone. The state would require that a citizen give six years of his life to producing those goods, then allow...
...Woodstock," and "Starting A New Life," formed the core of Tupelo Honey's first side, its affirmation of domestic life. In the former, there is the line, "Lord, don't it get you, when you're bound to roam--Hear you children singin' daddy's comin' home." The latter speaks of moving, but not of the kind of roaming fancied by troubadours. It is the moving of a family unit, "We gotta move, way on down the line,--Girl, we been standing in one place for too long a time." The feeling is reinforced by "You're My Woman," following...