Word: wanderer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...here that his style and outlook developed as it never had before, and would not again. During his years at Harvard, Wolfe acquired a vast literary background. He read voraciously, eight or ten books a week, even in the periods of his hardest work. Of Widener he wrote: "I wander through the stacks of that great library like some damned soul, never at rest--ever leaping ahead from the pages I read to thoughts of those I want to read." Wolfe possessed an amazing memory, and he was convinced that his tremendous literary background would eventually be "fused and resurrected...
...Opus Jazz, before brilliant backdrops by Ben Shahn, cool cats off the city streets wander through the compulsive variations of "The Slop," Robbins' reproduction of a minor juvenile mania. Five boys and one girl horse around on a rooftop, spelling out the amoral communal sex of the tenements. A Negro boy and a white girl grope through their loneliness, reaching out with palms that never quite touch. The whole show adds up to the first hit of the fall season. At 39, Dance Master Jerry is still making the guests happy...
Divided by Politics. Tucked into a far corner of the subcontinent next to Burma, East Pakistan has little real concern for the issues that seem important to General Mirza's central government. Politicians in the provincial capital of Dacca, where goats wander in the unpaved streets, argue that it makes little sense for Pakistan to spend 70% of its budget on arms when industry so desperately needs capital. East Pakistan inclines more to a neutralist foreign policy, and can see little profit in joining anti-Communist alliances such as the Baghdad Pact (though, if profit is the standard, Pakistan...
...town curls like a dozing cat on the side of a sunny Umbrian hill. Tourists rarely wander down its narrow, cobblestoned streets. But last week little (pop. 16,000) Spoleto was wide awake, jolted out of its centuries-long slumber by an explosion of song and dance...
After a cocoanut martini and asparagus stick at Lou's Fruit Juice Bar (near Scollay Square) you can wander down Tremont Street to the Gary for the Young Lions, which is worth the money...