Word: wanderers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know that the pace has quickened here, but not through love; desperate students wander into the Bureau of Study Counsel in sufficient numbers for the Director to report to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences a "defeat of their yearning for a sense of purpose." The wonderful things we have been told about ourselves don't really satisfy, and I guess James Baldwin, speaking with the wisdom of the oppressed, had us best in hand...
Song and Dance. At the Lisbon TV station, one leftist officer was appealing for popular support for the rebels when his eyes started to wander nervously from the camera, as if his TelePrompTer had gone berserk. "They tell me I have to get off," he said. "It's probably for technical reasons ... No, it's not?" He was cut off, and Lisbon transmission was taken over by a station 175 miles to the north in Oporto, a conservative stronghold. The program switched from the hortatory sounds of rebellion to the happy song and dance of Danny Kaye...
...accept the conclusion that Oswald killed both Kennedy and Officer Tippit is not necessarily to believe that no one put him up to it. Yet no evidence of a plot has ever been brought forward. The hit man in such a scheme does not wander around, as Oswald did -walking, catching a bus, switching to a cab, picking up a revolver at his rooming house and walking again-with not enough money to travel far from the scene of the crime. He does not call attention to himself ahead of time by barging into the Cuban and Soviet embassies...
...Most who wander into the alley are bewildered victims of the brutal ongoing warfare between Cambridge cars. If they're lucky, one of the yards will have a fender to match the make, model and color of the car; if not, the choice may be between a blue fender on a red car for $25 and a new blue fender...
...transferred, as have 13 of her 17 para-professionals (trainees who work with regular instructors at half pay; many study for their own teacher's certificates). Security protection has been reduced from three to two hours a day, and with less supervision, young pupils are more apt to wander away from school during lunch and not come back...