Word: wanderings
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...undeterred. "I know it sounds hateful, but after the blast, don't we need all the possible skills and resources available for survival?" he asks. Kingsbury claims that at least his mother agrees with him. "She told me that she is far too old to be evacuated and wander around the desert. She'd rather take what comes...
...sometimes sense that we have reached a moment of critical mass when travel is somehow no longer necessary. The terrestrial explorations have been done. Do we really need to wander through one another's cultures, smelling the cooking? Could we just hook up to each other by videophone, perhaps with a sensory attachment, and simply dial Bali or Maui or Angkor Wat? Must the body go there when the mind can almost make it by other means...
...people of Hamilton, says Davis, all live within little cocoons within the larger cocoon of Hamilton itself, unwilling to understand the feelings and aspirations of their neighbors. With no help from a newspaper that "exemplified the lack of communication among the sum of Hamilton's parts," the people wander in a stratified world that defies the much-loved American label of "melting pot." The lines are not exclusively economic--though money is the most important divider--but the lines exist, dividing the city into separate and unequal components...
...believe that the South of William Faulkner. Gone With the Wind and the Ku Klux Klan could produce Rita Mac Brown. In her latest novel. Southern Discomfort--which is filled with her signature wit and warmth--Brown follows several of Motgomery. Alabama's more interesting citizens as they wander through a sexual and social labyrinth as only a candid, radical feminist...
...assuming that there probably are Nicaraguans fighting for the left in El Salvador--with or without their Government's blessing--does that justify American military involvement of the sort Haig is clearly itching for? What would we defend--a corrupt, militaristic government which has allowed killer brigades to wander the countryside, aimlessly murdering civilians while battling the ill-defined forces of the left? And what of the Nicaraguan bases. Cuban-built or not? They only become dangerous if interpreted as the first falling dominos in a potential avalanche tumbling across El Salvador, Hondouras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and then the shipping...