Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...women.' " They fixed him up with a model deep enough to accommodate him, Stetson and all. Three of his seven children live with him: Aissa, 13, John Ethan, 7, and Marisa, 3. Two older sons, Pat and Michael, run Wavne's Batjac film-production outfit. And 16 grandchildren frequently wander around the spacious house. No one has counted all the people on the payroll; there are the folks at Batjac, the moviemaking cronies who travel with Wayne from picture to picture, the employees on his cotton and cattle ranches, one of which covers 60 square miles. Plus assorted domestic servants...
...sometimes colloquial, language to describe the woods, the men, and the fire that consumes both: "Each time the cull deck shifted, tons of fuel would resettle and a hundred dozen sparks would be sucked upwards like the spores of some livid fungus." As his dispirited warriors of the soul wander the fire-blasted countryside, a suspenseful psychological drama is created that subtly expresses the themes of innocence, guilt and the corruption of the individual by society...
...Berg is the best trainer of claiming and allowance horses in the country. Every time one of his horses goes to post it is trying for part of the purse. Should one wander North on route 93 to Rockingham Park some afternoon, he might find that a small wager on the Van Berg entries was money well-invested...
...Edward FitzGerald, famous English translator of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, was one of a family of eccentrics, of which his eldest brother John was the most colorful. John was possessed of some kind of religious mania that caused him to wander around the countryside seeking an audience. His conduct in church was most amazing. Entering a pew, he would take off his shoes and stockings, then empty his pockets on the pew beside him and listen most attentively to the sermon. If anything the preacher said appealed to him, he would let out a shrill whistle that was heard...
...hippie counter-culture is only a step-by-step pursuit of opposites, rather than a one-step approach to novelty. So, if we are basically middle-class in our concerns, I would suggest that we have to define, concretize, and mitigate those concerns before we can hope to wander further afield in any direction...