Word: wanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 200 patients a day silently wander the halls, beneath a sign that reads REMEMBER, CONVERSATIONS AMONG PATIENTS ABOUT YOUR DELIRIUMS ARE FORBIDDEN. In one room 15 elderly women are putting together white ballpoint pens and costume jewelry; such work is regarded as therapy, but the pens and decorative chains are sold to help the center financially. A basement room decorated with film and travel posters is the center's Sobriety Society -the Soviet equivalent of Alcoholics Anonymous. There a young reformed drunk is sanding wood for a remodeling program that will expand the society's facilities...
Joshua loved Hollywood and its confident hustlers. On a previous visit he had delighted in spinning through the canyons in somebody else's Mercedes, gearing down to consider the more outlandish mansions, each garden perfect. He liked to wander through the unbelievably opulent men's shops on Rodeo, startling the prissy clerks.by bargaining. He enjoyed the tanned, trim, middle-aged producers on health diets, toting scripts to market in Gucci attaché cases, even as their East Side grandfathers had once carried sewing machines on their shoulders. They strutted into the Polo Lounge or La Scala or Dominic...
WILLIAM S. FAIRFIELD, managing editor of The Crimson in 1948, wrote an article on June 4, 1949, which reported that undercover FBI agents "wander in and out of (Yale) Provost Edgar S. Furniss's office every day" to inform on young faculty up for tenure. The physics department received the most extensive surveillance. Fairfield reported. The FBI approached Henry Margenau, a professor in the Physics Department and now Higgins Professor of Physics and Natural Philosophy Emeritus at Yale, to reproach him for speaking before the New Haven Youth Movement, a group with supposedly leftist leanings, Fairfield claimed. He noted that...
...biblical sense, the truth shall make you free, then members of counterintelligence are serving life sentences. As the CIA's longtime chief of counterintelligence, James Angleton, sees it, agents wander through a "wilderness of mirrors," in which no revelation can be entirely trusted. Many have tried to chart that wilderness, and inevitably much of the landscape and many of the personalities are thoroughly familiar. But David C. Martin, a Washington reporter for Newsweek, has some fresh perspectives: he delves deeply into the daily life of counter-intelligence operatives; he recounts a sensational (and eminently disputable) surmise about Angleton...
...shines through her apocalyptic set, an outdoor sandcastle lit by torches. It's clearly not the kind of sandcastle on which uplifting dreams are built. Since only futility wafts through Beckett's dreams and illusions, this purgatorial anti-Eden perfectly suits Vladimir and Estragon, the two main characters, who wander helplessly in search of the mysterious Godot...