Word: sojourners
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...Russian artist Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) casts a long shadow over modern art. His career took him to most of its centers: Munich before World War I, Russia, and next a long sojourn at the Bauhaus in Germany during the 1920s, then a last expatriation to Paris after the rise of Hitler. If ever a painter carried his culture in one portable labyrinth on his back, as if he were a rambling snail, it was Kandinsky. And while he did not invent abstract art on his own (as he and his admirers were given to claim), he certainly did more...
There are others, too, who have made the great leap forward. Joe Mullen, for instance, perhaps the greatest player ever to come out of Boston College, recently resurfaced on the St. Louis Blues after a lengthy sojourn in the minors. Only a few weeks ago. Mullen slammed the puck home twice in a mere eight seconds to push the Blues well out in front of Minnesota...
...week vacation in Jamaica, a two-week sojourn in Hawaii, a 1982 Cadillac. Those were the principal gifts given to outgoing Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, 43, last week by his admirers at a teary farewell dinner in the Georgia capital. Jackson has served the two four-year terms that local law allows. Among the 1,300 friends who turned up for the $100-a-plate affair were Singer Gladys Knight, and former U.N. Ambassador and Atlanta Mayor-elect Andrew Young. "I don't know that anybody's going to fill your shoes," said Young as he surveyed Jackson...
...quite a persona. Whether the name is Kluckhorn, Perlmutter, or Ginsberg, the same character resurfaces. He is a semi-suave ectomorph who will chase any nubile starlet, whether it requires a descent into a sea of polyester leisure suits at the Americana Hotel or a lengthy sojourn in a Ukrainian cafeteria in the east twenties. Though craven in the utmost, he dashes off to Djibouti or Jakarta at a moments notice, spewing out words along the way like "henbane," "anchor," "parlous," "jardiniere" as well as an occasional "zounds" or "sweet-patootie". A cultural sponge that oozes erudition and arcana...
Luhrmann's sojourn to Cambridge--funded by a National Science Fellowship as well as the De Jersey--comes after almost four years devoted to "the problem of finding a coherent theory of society which accounts for the individual...