Word: rucksacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are two categories of undergraduate expedition: 1) scholarly, and 2) really scholarly. Presumably of the first sort is the trip planned by one Cantabrigian, who advertised for an "attractive young lady for Norwegian tour. Must be willing to carry own rucksack 20 miles a day." But both kinds cost money, and for purposes of wheedling cash and supplies an impressively academic purpose is a requirement. Said one expedition veteran: "The trick is to decide which place in the world you most want to visit, then find some compelling scientific or historical reason for going there...
...Japhy initiates Ray in a nonascetic pastime he calls "yabyum,"*and it makes such fictional standbys as nude mixed bathing seem mid-Victorian. A yabyummy blonde compliantly strips to the buff to play the role of the "holy concubine" in the first of several "Zen Free Love Lunacy orgies." Rucksack Revolution. This may explain why Ray drags his sneakered feet a bit when the boys finally start climbing the Matterhorn in the Sierra Nevada. This climb, which occupies about a fourth of The Dharma Bums, is a writer's set piece, a hymn to nature. Kerouac's poetic...
...side of the story, plaintively disclosed that it is "boring and artificial" to be rich, "more fun being a rich little poor girl than a poor little rich girl." Sandra reached her conclusion after a summer vacation hiking around England, Scotland and Wales on a tight budget with a rucksack on her back, stopping at 70?-a-night youth hostels that "had just cold water and a wooden tub, and some had just one faucet, so that we had to wait outside in the rain for our turn to get washed." Gushed Sandra: "It was great...
...shirt and shorts, and with his hair streaming in the wind, pedals his bicycle furiously along the roads of Sweden." On one occasion, Hammarskjold cycled to a town in the south of Sweden and asked for a hotel room. The clerk examined the sweaty, youthful figure in shorts, with rucksack, and told him to try the youth hostel. The chairman of the board of the Bank of Sweden, Dag Hammarskjold, did as he was told...
Spinning Passenger. It was this experience which inspired Willy to tack a motor on his rucksack parachute and turn it into a strap-on-the-back flying machine. It was not an entirely new idea. One devised by the Wehrmacht, for example, worked nicely, except that it spun the passenger almost as fast as it spun its rotors, depositing the dizzy victim on the ground in no fit condition to fight for der Führer. Willy devoted most of his postwar resources to exterminating such bugs: he sold his house and car, hocked his radio shop...