Word: wanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hundreds of thousands of peasants live in hovels made of packed mud: naked children with swollen bellies and open sores wander among the grunting pigs, garbage and flies...
...thread of Burgess's moral dilemma runs through all episodes and discussions in the book. He sometimes treats the issue overtly as when the intellectuals and churchmen who wander through Toomey's narrative subject the doctrine of free will and the homosexual's place in the kingdom of God to ponderous scrutiny. How can homosexuals and a conception of God coexist in harmony? This is the question the many homosexuals Toomey encounters--antagonists and lovers alike--are continually fretting over. And yet, Burgess's most absorbing and ponderous moral statements do not come from such often-babbling and never conclusive...
Students generally have notes on this kind of lecture which wander off the page or don't stay within the lines or go both ways on the same page. They look like zombies when they leave. And there's a reason for this. Professors, really, can't be any less abstruse. Most of them want or need to get a book out of their lecture notes, and that immediately means that the tone is going to be less than conversational. Those who don't are at least mildly interested in the abstract beauty of the whole thing, which means again...
...decade for Presidents and visiting heads of state. Reagan has sat in the library with the dark red walls where Andrew Jackson took coffee, and he has brushed by the shadowy parlor where Robert E. Lee turned down command of the Union armies in 1861. Abraham Lincoln used to wander across to Blair House during the Civil War, a troubled giant who came for relief from the grim story of war through friends and humor...
...ordinary documentary, he has fashioned a kind of oral and visual history, with long interviews with those who remember (including one ancient man who recalls the famous buzzard of '88). Occasionally the interviews take their own good time-and the viewer's-as Miles lets his oldtimers wander too far down history's obscure bypaths...