Word: wanderlied
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What does the music tourist have to choose from in Europe? He may wander through the Alps to the Swiss town of Fribourg, where he will be nearly swamped under the crush of 3,000 yodelers, on hand to compete for the tenth national championship. On his Rhine journey he may stop off in Coblenz to hear Johann Strauss's A Night in Venice, waterborne on a float in a quiet inlet of the river. Or he may try a harmonica and accordion festival in Nürnberg, where the best West German bands will be chosen...
...Yale is the difference in the examination procedure itself. At a designated time, students pick up bluebooks and copies of the exam in one room. They can then go to any classroom, lounge, or seminar room in the school, except, of course, the library. Examinations are not proctored. Students wander through the corridors, smoking and mulling. The Student Council provides coffee and doughnuts for those in need of refreshment...
...dialogue, in fact, seems to be one of the strong points of the film. But when you think about it afterwards, you realize there wasn't much to the words after all: it was all Bogy and Baby. The remaining characters, who wander in and out gratuitously getting shot, poisoned and otherwise mistreated, all do a good job, too, mere foils though they...
...take-off point. He knows where his ship is supposed to go, and roughly how fast and in what direction it is flying. His job is to find out, by observation, where it really is. Such factors as wind and misbehavior of the gyrocompass can make the ship wander far off its course...
...Independent movie-theater owners who seldom permit their eyes to wander from the cash register to the screen, were polled by the Independent Film Journal on their favorite movie and stars of the 1953-54 season. Top-money movie: From Here to Eternity (Columbia). No. 1 actor: John Wayne. No. 1 actress: Marilyn Monroe...