Word: wanderings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...puts out the annual call for new staffers, blanketing the campus with its celebrity-filled fliers, the process of indoctrination will begin. Would-be travel writers will wander into information sessions to hear testimonies from London club kids and Indian backpackers who found enlightenment, courtesy of Let's Go. Aspirants should note, however, that like a fresh rhinoplasty, such wisdom requires, if not heavy sedatives, a healthy dose of healing time...
...Leaguers living abroad in the late '50s completely overlooks the role of pinball machines. Yes, pinball machines. In those days, every little cafe on the Left Bank seemed to have one. Americans were drawn to them. Someone whom Ripley's friend Dickie Greenleaf might have known at Princeton would wander into a Left Bank cafe, fully committed to behaving like a French intellectual. He'd be carrying a paperback copy of Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. He would promise himself to spend most of the afternoon staring down into his drink the way French intellectuals always stared down...
...school and a fair number of kids wander through the school doing a minimal amount of work," she says. "They don't leave with the skills and the knowledge base that they should...
...Angelo and his crew wander inside. "It's smaller than I remember," says D'Angelo. He goes right for the piano. "It's the same one," he says happily. He sits down and starts to play. He only strokes out a few chords, just a short spell of rich, gospelly magic, but it's enough. It took a whole childhood for him to go from here to stardom, it took five years for him to finish Voodoo, it took half the day for him to get to the interview. But in a few seconds, with a few notes, he gives...
...would effect a collegiate feel. But as the Square slowly becomes just another incarnation of the suburban strip mall, will we mourn the change? Perhaps next year the Bow and Arrow Pub, along with the Dunkin' Donuts, will just exist in the minds of upperclass students as first-years wander the brick sidewalks looking for "that bar in Good Will Hunting...