Word: wanderings
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This fascinating figure is the subject of a meticulously researched and elegantly written biography by Edmund White. Despite Genet's mammoth size and its tendency to wander from its subject, the book is never boring. White simply writes too well to let our attention stray. His sidetrips are always rewarding and his sense of his subject's life and literature compelling throughout...
...expecting to have certain points of your Moral Reasoning or European Intellectual History class made clear, "Wittgenstein" won't be too helpful. Think of it instead as a chance to wander around in the strange, collective universes of Derek Jarman, one of the best directors around, and Wittgenstein, probably one of the most filmable philosophers...
There are several ways your account security can be compromised. A common way of handing away your privacy is leaving your account without logging off. At any given time during the weekday one can wander into the Science Center terminal rooms and find some account unattended, its owner having wandered off after checking her e-mail...
DERELICTS URINATE ON WALLS or from bridges onto passersby. Shopgirls get picked up in bars and wind up raped by men who think they are merely having fun. Deranged people wander about, talking to themselves or roaring confrontationally at strangers. An ill-advised glance at a fellow subway passenger leads to threats of mayhem. These are everyday realities in many big American cities, unbearable yet borne, mostly in grim, self-imposed blindness and deafness to what is all around. They somehow become more resistant to willful ignorance when placed on the stage in a play as eerily uninflected as Howard...
Stay near Yale. I'm not talking about sleeping in a Yale student's dorm room for the weekend. (You're probably planning on doing that anyway.) I mean that it's not wise to wander off campus. New Haven is a dangerous city, with many crime-and drug-infested neighborhoods not more than a few paces from many of the university's classrooms. Especially at night, try to stay inside Yale's gates, or at least very close to them. The more interesting areas of the city tend to be those closest to Yale anyway, so there's really...