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When the warmups end and most of the players skate off, two will linger on the ice. Freshman goalie Grant Blair will seem to wander aimlessly and senior winger Greg Britz will likely circle around the rink, sending a few more pucks into the empty nets, while Coach Bill Cleary stands at the bench, calling both...
Dissatisfied as they are almost none of the characters leave the home turf of West Virginia. In "Trilobites," one of the finest stories the young man Colley is tempted to wander, to Michigan or may be even Germany or China. His father has died: his mother wants to sell the farm ("about the last real farm left") and move north: and he is no good at farming anyway. But he is held by the past his own past and the palpable history of the country he knows so well. When Colley thinks of leaving he sees "the spot of ground...
...university is well structured, well tooled to turn our people with all the sharp edges worn off, the well-rounded person. The university is well-rounded to produce that sort of person, and this means that the best among the people who enter must for four years wander aimlessly much of the time, questioning why they are on campus at all, doubting whether there is any point in what they are doing, and looking toward a very bleak existence afterward in a game in which all of the rules have been made up, which one cannot really amend...
...know that it still floats through in its purest form in the jazzy and introspective "All the Love." She also goes back to her old European melodic style in 'Suspended in Gaffa." The incomprehensible lyrics follow a melody as appealing as "Oh To Be in Love" as they wander about on a waltz tempo. She doesn't really need these flashbacks to maintain her image, though. Despite the superficial changes in rhythm, voice and musical texture, the album has the same surreal spirit as its predecessors. Kate Bush is still alive and well and living in a world only...
...month later, certain warning signals told Lewis that the army had given up trying to train his brother, and was using force." Benjamin's "dishonorable discharge" spares the twins from physical injuries, but the word that both are slackers and shirkers informs the neighborhood against them. Neither can wander far from home without encountering taunts and jeers. By the time the war is over, "the twins' world had contracted to a few square miles...