Word: sojourners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here, my you was a one day sojourn to Osterville, Cape Cod. Were it not for a generous offer to accompany my roommate and a classmate to the latter's home, I would have spent a post-exam weekend tired and worried sick for my grade. Instead, away from Cambridge I saw stars. Lots of them. Then there was salt march, beautiful water and even a barn-just like home...
...With Spain formalizing its indictment against Pinochet Thursday, the general looks set for a lengthy sojourn in Britain. And that further reduces the risk of turmoil in Chile. "The longer this drags on, the more it becomes simply part of the political background as life goes on," says Love. "People are getting sick of the issue -- a majority of Chileans believe Pinochet is guilty, but they are also telling pollsters that the issue doesn't affect them." The one thing that could disrupt the onset of calm, of course, would be the general's return home. That would force Chileans...
...scrambling to embrace the surge of interest in caps and coverage and out-of-pocket expenses. Members of Congress back home for the Fourth of July weekend spent much of the holiday making speeches about patients' rights and access to emergency care. President Clinton, flying in from a restorative sojourn in the Middle Kingdom, let it be known that he would hit the ground running on health care this week. Meanwhile, an ever vigilant army of lobbyists is already gathering in the capital for what could be the biggest political fight between now and the fall elections (see following story...
...sojourn in Spain is recounted with panache and subtlety in Arturo Perez-Reverte's The Seville Communion (Harcourt Brace; 375 pages; $24), one of those infrequent whodunits that transcend the genre. The investigating priest is soon dipping into an olla podrida involving cupidity, lost love and sudden deaths at the church that may or may not have been accidents. Among those defending the church is the imperious noblewoman Macarena Bruner, whose Carmen-like beauty disturbs the celibate priest. She's the estranged wife of a banker who faces financial ruin if a sneaky real estate deal that would raze...
Throughout The Priest Fainted, we wonder how much the narrator really learns about herself. Her sojourn is so confused that her great waking moment seems to be when she ends her relationship with the Greek basketball player, who had been verbally and physically abusing her. Why she needed a trip to Greece and over a hundred pages to learn to stay away from abusive men is beyond the comprehension of most readers. Davidson herself seems to know that the narrator's soul-searching is not quite so deep, as when the narrator speaks about "the rubble of my year...