Word: wanderlusting
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...them from the society--just given them a more fluid definition of what home and citizenship are. Whoever wrote that song about not being able to stay down on the farm after seeing Paree was at least partly right. Except the underlying reasons for this feeling are not only wanderlust. They range from dissatisfaction with some elements of American society to the development of a commitment to another culture...
...time of spring's approach, as the sap runs not only in the trees but also in the body, the imagination of the would-be traveller soars to its most vertiginous heights and the intransigent pulse of wanderlust surges relentlessly through the veins. Like Shelley we yearn to be done with frozen leaves and turbulent skies and shout forth a panegyric to the incipient balmy days of a more gentle season. But alas, the streets bear the scars of the ravages of snowstorms, the trees scream in their gnarled bareness, the clouds continue to obscure the fulgent sunshine. Cambridge does...
...stems, no doubt, from the experiment in democratic socialism conducted in Chile by President Salvador Allende. But interest runs much deeper than that as more and more people are studying Spanish and general Latin American history. A new generation of American wanderers, turning to the south to expend their wanderlust in place of the traditional Europe, travel not only to Santiago but also to Quito and Lima, to the Brazilian northwest and the Andean highlands. American students talk not only of Allende but also of Peron and Echevarria...
...exception to the trend. Last year for the first time they spent more money touring abroad ($6.5 billion) than the usual international champions, the Americans (who spent $5.4 billion). Though West Germany has economic problems, it also has millions of highly affluent people who continue to display an exceptional wanderlust. On the other hand, the U.S. this year will lead all other countries in gross income derived from tourism, an expected $3.25 billion. Indeed, Europeans who have the means find some of the best bargains in North America. Some 120,000 West Germans are expected to visit Canada. Through...
...tone of the magazine is consciously directed at a certain image of the American independent trucker: "the last of America's pioneers," Overdrive calls him. He is tough but gentle, this man; he is filled with wanderlust and a craving for adventure, but he's still good to the wife and kids at home. He's free and American, and a crafty yankee through and through...