Word: sojournings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ever so ambiguous, there is no idea like home. Not the least of home's specialness is the fact that it can often be seen most clearly from afar. Thus it was a sojourn in Italy that inspired Robert Browning's famous "Oh, to be in England . . ." By chance, while in Paris early in the 19th century, the American Actor-Author John Howard Payne experienced some of the yearnings for home that found their way into his classic Home, Sweet Home. Together, Payne's song and Browning's poetry suggest that the part of home that...
Salomon, 27, reportedly repaid the prince's hospitality by recounting fond recollections of her sojourn like this nugget: "Everyone was sitting around the swimming pool looking glum, when Andrew suddenly grabbed Koo and ripped off her bathing suit. Then he went to another girl and pulled at hers." Among her other dispatches from the isle of Mustique: the prince running around in the buff and attempting to jam a live lobster down the bathing suit of a young lady. Prince Charles, 33, meanwhile, is plagued by rumors about a "royal tiff" with his wife Diana, 21. Newspapers, after apparently...
...companion of Bech's choice, who will pull each sheet from under his busy pen. Bech brings along Norma, the reliable mistress whom he will never marry; the two of them have settled into "a limbo of heterosexual palship haunted by silently howling abandoned hopes." As the tense sojourn drags toward its close, Bech finds his signature harder and harder to complete. Finally he lifts his pen. "All was poised, and the expectant blankness of the paper seemed an utter bliss to the author, as he gazed deep into the negative perfection to which his career had been brought...
Judging from last season's uninspiring spring sojourn to Johns Hopkins. Delaware, and Cornell, which propelled the squad to an early 0-3 record, staying near home may not be such a bad idea. And considering the squad's unsuccessful journey to Baltimore, Md. earlier this season, the idea may be a very good...
...Asian affairs bureau in Stockholm. For the next five years, Oberg helped mediate between the United States and Hanoi. In 1970, he opened the Swedish mission to the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam. He stayed in Vietnam until 1974, a witness to the gradual American withdrawal. After a brief sojourn to Stockholm, Oberg was named ambassador to Thailand. Laos and Singapore--Sweden maintained one post for these three nations--where he served until last year...