Word: wanderlied
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...attempt to invoke academic freedom on behalf of Henry Kissinger's right to return to Harvard surely places a strained interpretation on that term. If academic freedom means nothing more than the freedom of academics to do as they please--to wander off for an unspecified number of years like a prodigal son, commit war crimes or participate in an immoral presidency--then it is difficult to defend. If academic freedom involved the freedom to advance opinions and theories violating the popular wisdom then it shouldn't be controversial...
Tuchman was also disturbed by the inflexibility of her itinerary, but was reassured when she was allowed to wander alone in Yenan, and upon entering a schoolhouse, discovered that the conditions and friendliness were no different than in scheduled schools...
...playing festivals like the Newport Jazz Festival, and invading major concert halls in such cities as Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and, of course, New York. In between, he "rests up" in his modest, nine-room house in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, and sometimes lets his mind wander back over times gone by. Like the night when he was eight and thought there was a ghost in the backyard. Actually, it was a white shirt hanging on the clothesline. His father took him outside, made him touch the shirt, then whipped him. "He only whipped me three times...
...world outside the door. Once again, George speaks for the band; he sits in a living room lit only by the television, surrounded by guitars, music, and friends. The hockey game clicks away; the strains of the new electric organ drift downstairs; some of the children, or "rats" wander through the open door; this is home...
...continually circulating in the cylinder that there is a way out, either through a tunnel in the wall or through a trap door in the unreachable ceiling, and by the memory that once man had seen stars shine. But the Inferno in the closet thing to a predecessor ones wander endlessly in a circle, pausing only to climb one of the ladders leading to niches high in the walls, or to join the numbers of the "non-searchers," the "sedentary," or the "vanquished." These are slumped against the walls in the position of Beckett's favorite figure from the Purgatorio...