Word: trek
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thunder and lightning. Brook's film is based on the mystic's autobiography. The tale begins in a small town on the Russian-Turkish border where Gurdjieff grew up. From there, the young seeker begins a series of exotic adventures: encounters with various eclectic holy men, a trek through the Gobi Desert and finally a rendezvous with a mysterious sect known as the Sarmoung Brotherhood. These incidents are lavishly described by Brook, who builds the film to his hero's discovery of the meaning of life. In dramatic terms, this climax is roughly as exciting...
...will rave about Steve's. It is quite a trek to Somerville, but Steve's is worth the half-hour wait on line. At Steve's you can design a frozen edifice of delicious made-on-the-premises ice cream and m and m's, fruit, whipped cream, coconut and other nuts, crushed Heath Bars, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and the quintessential maraschino cherry. If you aren't drooling now, you will be after you've waited in the round-the-block lines just to get in the unpretentios little store with the salt-rock ice cream mixers...
Among graduate school libraries, Andover Library at the Divinity School is worth the trek if you really want to avoid humanity-in the older section of its stacks you may be the only person on the floor for hours on end. At the Education School's Gutman Library the walls are as brightly colored as a modern elementary school's, but the chairs are comfy. If you own a briefcase you'll look like everyone else at Baker Library at the Business School, but a number of undergraduates swear by it. The Public Affairs Library at the Kennedy School...
Peter Raymond's stronger-every-day charges barely needed to exert themselves en route to a convincing sweep over Navy on the Severn River in Annapolis, Md. But after the Crimson oarsmen had departed, Haines Cup in tow, the return trek to Cambridge presented all the challenges the travellers could have wished for on an overcast weekend...
Steven G. Sawyer, one of several who flew the whales yesterday, said original plans called for a launching of the leviathans in Harvard Yard. but the crew was "too tired" to make the trek to Cambridge...