Word: wanderlied
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...months before he died with a needle in his arm. To the '70s consciousness, the specific grounds for Bruce's arrests seem absurd. He said words like "shit," "penis," "asshole" and "cocksucker," but he did not do so on television. He didn't cut records, he didn't wander the streets mouthing dirty words at 12-year-old girls. He used the words in a nightclub act, talking candidly about sex and about how absurd it was that words like "fuck" and acts like fucking were considered obscene when it was alright for children to watch bloody killings in movies...
WHEN JESSICA MITFORD was a young teenager in London, her governess used to drag her to Hyde Park on Sundays. She would often wander over to where the soap-box orators held forth. One day, she heard someone sing the Internationale, and misunderstood the words. Instead of "the final conflict," Mitford thought the song referred to the class struggle as "the fine old conflict...
...bubble gum and baseball, baseball card collecting has come of age. Of the more than 100,000 baseball card collectors in the U.S. today, some make as much as $20,000 a year dealing their wares. At the dozen major annual U.S. trading conventions, the casual aficionado can wander down aisles crowded with tables of cards-some heaped in shoe boxes, others displayed in expensive leather briefcases. The hardcore collectors adjourn to private rooms where big deals among three or more people are negotiated during all-night poker games. "When the hobby started, it was all trading," says Frank Nagy...
Most students said they did not feel pressured by their parents to choose particular fields. However, parents encouraged students to choose careers early, so they would not wander through school lost. Students with parents in particular professions have been influenced to follow their parents' footsteps. Very few said they were motivated by financial reasons. Many students indicated that they could have plunged rather easily into any two of the three fields scrutinized. Some others based their final decisions on summer work in the field. Others cautioned us--quite rightly, we believe--that their immediate choices may not necessarily reflect their...
...amalgam of these categories brought Turgenev his widest recognition. Enraptured by the Spanish singer, he reached back for lyric memories of his rural Russian youth. The Sportsman's Sketches provides a landscape with figures-peasants and hunters who wander in a remote and somehow doomed pastorale. The book was to become a profound influence on Hemingway, and Poet Randall Jarrell called its evocations of the countryside "the best of all possible worlds." Pritchett agrees. "There are two masters of seeing in Russian literature," he observes. "Tolstoy sees exactly as if he were an animal or a bird: and what...