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Criticizing the "hush" atmosphere and police type surveillance common in many museums, Professor of Fine Arts Norman Bryson contrasted the traditional disciplinary model of a museum with the "vagabond" model, where art objects are not arranged based solely on their media...

Author: By Susan R. Sweet, | Title: Art Historians Stress Importance of Museums | 10/19/1991 | See Source »

...Bucharest sit-in has blocked traffic in one of the capital's main thoroughfares and led Iliescu to denounce the protesters as "vagabonds," a description for which he later apologized. Throughout the country, protesters took to wearing lapel badges inscribed I AM A VAGABOND and renewed their demands for Iliescu to step aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Romania Two Cheers for the Front Runner | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

...long after, the future vagabond and his brother were sent to boarding school in England where, he recalls, "as English boys who had barely heard of cricket we were natural targets." Classmates branded him a liar when he told them of warriors and lion hunts. Rejected, he withdrew into primal memories of Abyssinia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Just Before the Sands Ran Out THE LIFE OF MY CHOICE | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

...their professions as well as their heads. Successful executives, lawyers, doctors, dentists, shrinks, anthropologists, poets (Allen Ginsberg), novelists (William Burroughs) and composers (John Cage) dog-eared his card in their Rolodexes. Even the selection of Boulder as a center was a commercial brainstorm; it is a mecca for vagabond children with trust funds. He lived as ostentatiously as a televangelist -- though not as tastelessly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Vermont: A Spiritual Leader's Farewell | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

...this does not sound like careful management practice, there you are; * Winifred never set out to be a careful manager. The daughter of a General Motors vagabond, she attended 22 schools before she reached twelfth grade. In Minnesota, shortly before she got her diploma, she met Robert Bundy, who was working on a master's in electrical engineering. He was nine years older, but "he looked real young." They were married in 1949, and Bob went to work in Los Angeles. "His object was to get to Tucson for me, because it was dry, and I had asthma." When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Books on a Ranch | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

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