Word: wanderer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then those who have no experience of wisdom and virtue, who are always at their feastings and so forth, are being carried downwards, as it seems, and back again to the middle region, and there they wander about all their lives; as to passing above this limit, they have never even cast a look to the true upwards and never been there, never been filled with what really is or had a taste of pure and abiding pleasure. Like brute beasts, they look ever downwards, and feed stooping over the ground and poking their noses into their tables, cropping...
Singapore, the stepping-off stone for trips to Indonesia, South Viet Nam, Cambodia and Thailand. In Singapore itself, visitors can wander through fragrant, junglelike botanical gardens, try out the famed Chinese restaurants, take a side trip across the causeway to the Malayan mainland for a view of the Sultan of Johore's famed palace. Singapore's best hotel is the renowned Raffles, where rates average $20 per day for a double room v. $15 elsewhere. Best shopping bets: jade, Chinese scrolls and painted silk. Average tourist expense in Southeast Asia: $30 to $50 per day per person...
...Normally it is very difficult to get into the university there, which has an enrollment of about 8,000 students, most of whom live in university dormitories. One needs a written pass to attend lectures or to visit the dormitories, although at the other universities Malia found he could wander around by looking as if he belonged there...
...American who has known neither the alienation of a broken English middle-class family, nor the indignity of the tyrannical master, much less the search for philosophical stability which came in an age so recently disillusioned, the story is seldom real. Wander through it with an admiration for the man's mind, a sense of having done little where he has done much, but you will not in all probability find any rapport. While the story is not typical of those born at the turn of the century, (as he suggests, he "has always been a converted Pagan living among...
...After 25 years of pleading, Congress had finally authorized a toll bridge spanning the mile-wide Missouri to connect the two towns. But should they build the bridge over the old or new bed? The Army engineers said to build over the old channel, since the Missouri would probably wander back; if it did not, the engineers "would take the necessary corrective action...