Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...monk's cell in a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, is not your ordinary writer's retreat. But then TIME Contributor Pico Iyer is not your ordinary writer. For one thing, he travels a lot. For the past eight months he has used Kyoto -- either the temple or a tiny apartment in the ancient city -- as a base camp for his forays around Japan and into the Himalayas. Iyer's trips have provided grist for a book in progress and recent TIME stories on the Dalai Lama and Tokyo Disneyland. "I try to catch the inner stirrings...
...blending of Eastern and Western culture overseas. He became a contributor in 1986, and is now spending a year in Kyoto. His second book, he declares, will be an introspective work "about staying in one place; about discovering roots and angling for depths. It will be a travel book about an inner adventure." This summer and fall he intends to spend time in London, Southeast Asia, Seoul (for the Olympics) and Bhutan. Whew...
...prisoners at Ansar 3 have seen any relatives, not even those who are detained in another section of the camp. The army responds that family visits to the prison have been prevented by "activist Palestinians," who intimidate relatives. The families complain about the cost, the long distance they must travel and formidable amounts of red tape...
Shawn A. MacDonald '88 says he will use his Rockefeller--which he calls his "dream fellowship"--to travel to Africa and Indonesia. While in Indonesia, MacDonald say he will work in a refugee camp for Southeast Asians. He chose the Rockefeller, which is restricted to Harvard seniors, because he wanted a fellowship that would allow him to work and travel rather than study...
Some, like Mark Leong '88, say that a fellowship could be a dream come true. Leong, who did his senior thesis on Chinatowns in American cities, received a Peabody Gardner traveling fellowship from the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. He will use the money to travel and take photographs in China. He says he hopes the fellowship will give him the skills he needs to fulfill his dream to work in China as a photogrpaher...