Word: wandering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interesting evening (and an escape from Cambridge), you might take the T into Boston and wander around town before choosing a restaurant. Chinatown and the North End (Boston's Italian district) are particularly good places to practice restaurant wanderlust on a low budget...
...Paris, the unsuspecting tourist may wander into a deceptively simple-looking restaurant and pay $20 for a plate of fresh asparagus and $217 for a bottle of Château Latour '55. The Paris Sheraton, which on the luxury scale is about equivalent to a better-class U.S. motel, charges $90 a night for a double room. At a top restaurant in Venice or Rome, an a la carte meal for two will cost up to $50 without cocktails or wine. A room for two at a first-class hotel averages about $35 a night...
...proof of thermometer power, just wander down by the Charles River. Try February 3 first. It's a desolate, Siberian sight if ever there was one. But then, for purposes of comparison, take another walk on one of the few thong-sandal April afternoons. You will see literally dozens, perhaps even hundreds of students ardently trying to live up to the image the outsiders have stuck them with. They are there with stacks of books, pen and paper, lecture notes. Some even go so far as to come fully attired, as if to punish themselves for wandering from the hallowed...
...wander around some more, waiting for the order to line up and head out. Beyond a three-headed effigy with the names Bakke, Vorster and Carter pinned on it, you spot a row of hard blue hats, glistening in the sun. You recall anti-war rallies in the '60s--when hard-hats with American flag-pins and tatooed, bulging arms did their patriotic bit for Uncle Sam--and a surge of adrenalin runs up your back. There's always that possibility, in a large demonstration...
Pipe arguments are the equivalent of pipe dreams. The farther they wander from probabilities, the more fun and fury they produce. Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear were experts at such arguments: Is too much energy being wasted transporting ham and bacon from farm to dinner table? How pleasurable to insist that pigs must fly. Author Jerry Mander's treatise offers precisely this kind of joyous irresponsibility. The world knows that the megabucks technology of television is not, repeat not, going to be eliminated. On his final page, Mander himself acknowledges that he has no idea...