Word: sojournings
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...intangible version of justice to real, perilous threats,” which Lewis says “warrants mockery,” is indeed what we will all be called upon to do every instant that we live in the real world. Only now, during our brief sojourn in the academic quiet, is there time for us to develop our visions of justice and to be certain where they lead...
...world's most overcrowded and impoverished cities. College friends still don't believe that Mohammed El Amir could have committed the atrocity of Sept. 11, but that if he had indeed become Mohammed Atta that would have required significant personality changes or brainwashing during his sojourn in Hamburg...
...They wore traditional Islamic garb, at least some of the time. The men often sat in circles on the floor praying, a neighbor reported. When they caught her watching, they installed blinds. They spoke good German. One neighbor complained about loud Arabic music. Despite Nehm's claims, the German sojourn has the feel of a somewhat more relaxed period, of working toward a goal that was not yet imminent...
...Christmas elf. A book contract for a collection of essays followed. In Holidays on Ice, Barrel Fever and Naked, Sedaris found a persona and a groove as a chain-smoking, movie-obsessed, gay misfit who got dark laughs from his mother's bout with cancer, from a painful sojourn at a nudist colony and from his fumbled sexual awakening at summer camp. "What are you," screams a counselor in I Like Guys, "a bunch of goddamned faggots who can't make your beds?" Sedaris writes, "I giggled out loud at his stupidity. If anyone knew how to make...
...Still, even with his string of successes, questions arose about a president taking another vacation, this one four weeks long, just six months into his first year on the job. And so, the sojourn evolved each time it was mentioned: First, it was a vacation. Then it was a working vacation. Soon the Bush?s Texas home had been turned into the White House of the high plains, simply a change of scenery for a hard-working...