Word: sojourner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...creation (though he leaves open to question how long the "days" were and how old the earth is). He believes literally in the Adam and Eve story and the entire New Testament, including accounts like Jesus' walking on water. Because of the way Jesus referred to Jonah's sojourn in the fish, Preus insists that the Jonah tale is history...
Overall some 97% of the 700 participants in the O.B. courses have completed their sojourn in the woods. Though O.B. has no statistics on long-term responses, most campers return to the office with renewed energy and confidence. Many regale co-workers with euphoric descriptions of their adventure, apparently blanking out the blistered heels, bloody knees and aching legs. The strict prohibitions against tobacco, drugs and alcohol ruffle some. Griped one executive: "It would have been terrific, if only I had brought along my beer...
Lewis' 14-day sojourn in prison does seem harsh. KPFK colleagues point out that it is unusual for a judge to jail someone and deny bail while a constitutional issue is being appealed. Lewis, after all, is hardly a direct menace to society, nor is he likely to become a fugitive...
EARLY IN John R. Coleman's working-class sojourn, his boss sends him off to deepen a cylindrical hole to make way for a standpipe. Coleman dutifully shuffles off, squeezes his frame down into the muddy pit, and with cramped movements heaves irregular clods back up towards the light. Ill-aimed shovel-loads occasionally fall back on him, but Coleman admits to rather liking the task. And just a few feet away, he notes, another submerged laborer toils in another clammy shaft...
COLEMAN SAYS he vowed to make his sojourn when he saw construction workers in New York rain nails on an anti-war rally of largely student protesters. He would resolve, or at least understand, this seeming conflict, Coleman intones gravely. But he responds with his generalization again. Political thought, he says, is a creature of academia--it does not belong in the ditches...