Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...holistic detective ("We solve the whole crime; we find the whole person"), is diverted from a career of finding vanished cats by a daunting assignment: assist a former Cambridge classmate who is wanted for murder and -- oh, yes -- save the human race from impending extinction. The yarn embraces time travel, ghostly possession, quantum mechanics, musical theory, computer modeling, cellular communications and, from another galaxy, Electric Monks (they "believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe"). College-level physics is not required...
...major beneficiaries of the improving East-West climate are ordinary Germans, who are increasingly able to travel, trade and exchange cultural assets across their border. Honecker may have spoken for both leaders a few years ago when, at a meeting with West German parliamentarians, he plaintively asked, "Must we do everything through our big brothers?" As Honecker revisits his homeland next week, many Germans will be hoping that the answer is no, not everything...
...Conversational Desktop is a voice-controlled computer system that acts like an automatic receptionist, personal secretary and travel agent -- screening calls, taking messages, making airline reservations. "Get me two seats to the Bahamas," says Research Scientist Chris Schmandt to his computer. "When do you want to go?" replies the machine...
...continued to operate, however, while Army commanders and Weinberger's office engaged in protracted negotiations about its future. In mid-1983 the National Security Council approved a so-called charter that kept ISA around, but under strict control. The agents are currently said to be forbidden to travel outside the Washington area without specific permission from the Secretary of the Army...
Chatwin took the advice and hit the road. He traveled to Asia, the Soviet Union, Africa, South America and the U.S. The results were In Patagonia (1977) and The Viceroy of Ouidah (1980), two remarkable books that demonstrated enviable gifts for observation, description and narrative invention. The Songlines brings these qualities to high relief, combining the conventions of travel writing, the patterns of the philosophical essay and the strategies of fiction. The work is obviously based on fact and personal experience, although Chatwin declares that much of it is literary concoction. In short, The Songlines is a book whose resistance...