Word: wander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bank of the Seine. Marthe is in tears; her lover has abandoned her. She consoles herself with Jacques. Hélas, the affair is only a dream; in the end it is shattered by the little ironies of circumstance. During their chaste interlude, Jacques and Marthe bathetically wander the streets of Paris, serenaded by muzzy folk singers and a bossa nova group whose sentimentality matches the scenario. Four Nights of a Dreamer is adapted from a story by Dostoevsky. Surely not the Feodor Dostoevsky...
Before there was coeducation at Harvard, Cambridge women would wander into Radcliffe classrooms and freely audit lectures given by Harvard professors. After 1946, when Radcliffe academically merged with Harvard, these wandering scholars were turned away from lectures for lack of space. For a time, even the Cliffies had to stand in the back of the lecture hall lest a Harvard man be deprived a seat...
...Coutard, the skeletal narrative often seems no more than a backdrop for his arresting images. He is at his best looking at Saigon through the children's eyes as they wander through a nightmare city that has been torn by war but is still bursting with luxurious restaurants and gaudy nightclubs. Coutard seems to share the children's wonder and confusion. There is one especially moving interlude in which they huddle around a sidewalk movie machine to watch an old Fernandel film...
...villain is a mad Russian pianist who owns an isolated Galapagos island, feeds his guests to a horde of clacking crabs and explains this little character problem in a marvelously sappy 19th century trope. "I am impelled to unspeakable desires," he sighs contentedly, "when my fingers wander over the keys...
...particular example aside, however, it is nevertheless quite possible to see aspects of our present generation of graduates in the history of those of '46. For, where fear of the draft kept the class of '71 chafing within Harvard's walls, it freed the class of '46 to wander the world. Yor could even avoid exams by enlisting in the Army and still be granted credit for a semester's work-a fact no one seemed to remember when last year's protestors demanded similar treatment. In the case of each example, the needs expressed are pretty much the same...