Word: transiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...samba music, actually realize those hopes and aspirations that so many of their fellow students find frustrated? Perhaps they do, and the old adage that money buys happiness has more truth than many would be willing to admit. But, alas, the pleasure of these sun-bathing souls must remain transient, and as they trickle back from the ski-slopes and the beaches, from the volcanoes and the jungles, the ecstasy of the fleeting week shrinks to the melancholy memory of a moment and expands into the imagery of a new mythology--the mythology of summer. As April lengthens into...
...heads a Pittsburgh-based foundation that bears her name. Followup, however, showed that Kuhlman's cures were something less than miraculous. Sufferers from migraine headaches, which are often caused by emotional problems, did feel relief after the healing service. So did people with bursitis, a painful but transient joint inflammation, and a few with multiple sclerosis, a cyclical disease that often gets better before it gets worse. But cancer victims remained noticeably unhealed. One cancer patient, who felt so good during the service witnessed by Nolen that she exercised onstage, died of the disease four months later...
...Edginess. Probably it is-but barely, since the relationship that develops among the trio is predictable to anyone having the faintest familiarity with road pictures. Rafferty and Mac become transient lovers, the better to serve as surrogate parents for Frisbee, thus buffing some of the raw edginess off her personality. After a while Mac wanders off with a bandleader, the cops return the kid to an orphanage, and Rafferty rescues her so that they can once more set forth on the road to nowhere...
...committee is disparate and has a long way to go--clerical workers are the gypsies of universities, transient and difficult to organize--but it is working determinedly and, for Schroder at least, on a largely personal, not political, level...
Deserve at least a transient holiday...