Word: wanderluster
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...August and Everything After, now in the top 15 on Billboard's album charts, shows that this Bay Area band is capable of creating credible, sometimes beautiful, rock 'n' roll. The Crows' moody, muted music is designed for the young and lost, as it charts a path of wanderlust and world- weariness that roams somewhere between Kerouac and Prozac. Singer- songwriter Adam Duritz writes about people who are damaged and drifting, their lives fashionably fraying around them like jeans torn out at the knees. "Step out the front door like a ghost," he murmurs on Round Here, "Into...
...Cynics of the age. These were men who believed not in nothing, as the word now implies, but in the rejection of the standard beliefs and values of society. And so, contrary to the times, Jesus taught radical egalitarianism. He also demanded itinerancy of his disciples. Believing that such wanderlust subtly spread subversion, the Romans had him crucified. Jesus -- a peasant nobody -- was never buried, never taken by his friends to a rich man's sepulcher. Rather, says Crossan, the tales of entombment and resurrection were latter-day wishful thinking. Instead, Jesus' corpse went the way of all abandoned criminals...
...imagined that this book which celebrated youth and America and wanderlust would be the kickoff to the summer's most exciting reading list ever. And why not? Like most finals-takers, I had been reading a book or two a day. If I could read Moby Dick in three days, I could surely read a Kerouac book in an afternoon, with time to spare for the entire Boston Globe, The New York Times and The Crimson for desert...
That ingenuity, coupled with an aggressive wanderlust, brought Europeans and their culture to the ends of the earth. By the year 1914, 84% of the world's land surface, apart from the polar regions, was under either a European flag or that of a former European colony. Of the nine nominally independent non- Western nations, Bhutan and Ethiopia were politically insignificant; Afghanistan, China, Siam, Nepal, Persia and the Ottoman Empire were under varying degrees of thrall to Western powers; only Japan was truly autonomous...
...intriguing discoveries about the writer's personal affairs. Victor Fischer and Michael Frank of the Mark Twain Project at the University of California, Berkeley, said some soon-to-be published letters show that in 1869, Twain, at 33, had launched a campaign to convince Olivia Langdon, 23, that his wanderlust would cease if she married him. Wrote Twain: "It is my strong conviction that, married to you, I would never desire to roam again while I lived." Despite her reservations, Langdon finally relented. Twain triumphantly wrote to his family, "She said she never could or would love...