Word: sojourners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...future and the small-is-beautiful theories of E.F. Schumacher, Brown was a weirdo they called "Governor Moonbeam." After losing a 1982 run for the Senate to San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson, he dropped out of politics and set off on the political equivalent of a penitent's sojourn in the desert. He went to Mexico to learn Spanish, studied Zen meditation in Japan and worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta. "I had such a negative reputation that every time I stood up someone would call me Moonbeam," Brown explains. "I felt I had to absent myself for a while...
...Patricia Schroeder (D-Col.) took time out from her Washington duties this week for a sojourn in Cambridge. The legislator, who briefly considered making a run for the presidency in the last election, participated in an Institute of Politics (IOP) forum on child care and the family on Thursday. This weekend she will speak at a Law School conference on family...
...that after the director spent so much time working on the accents of some characters, like Press, that others have none. A brief sojourn in Europe must have rid Catherine Holly (Anne Schott) of her accent, and Sister Felicity (Sally Milius) must have drowned hers in the ascetic life...
...After a sojourn in Europe, the Kirkland House Social Chairman plans to go to law school...
...When did he realize that his mission would end with death upon a cross? Did he view himself as the promised Messiah? Did he understand himself to be both God and man, and what imponderable struggles of the soul would that have meant for him during his sojourn on earth...