Word: wayward
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...game tailgating was all I had expected. Reports had it that folks had begun arriving just after Sunday Mass. It was a 9 p.m. Monday night game. Liturgical football, a pilgrimage of the first order, beer cans on the side of the road paved the path for lost, wayward souls...
...good to know all about the wayward economics of big business that caused the Depression, and about the NRA, unemployment curves, the deprivations of the Dust Bowl and Social Security. But what about the time Huey Long met Ina Ray Hutton? Moments like this-of which there are many in Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?-may not change history, but they can bring it close as no transcript or statistic can. It is the unproclaimed thesis of this breezy, weightless chronicle of the Depression that time is the sum of events great and small, and that the footnotes...
...with the claustrophobia of a big-city ghetto in Mean Streets, demonstrates an ability to discover a similar but more comic oppressiveness behind the fagades of the wide-open streets of the Southwest. He leaves plenty of room for quirky tangents to develop as the film proceeds on its wayward course...
...Novelist Greene has elsewhere paid tribute to the influence of Beatrix Potter's Tom Kitten on his work. These two more or less charming British classics, first published in 1946 when Greene was 42, are self-consciously linked to a whole school of children's homilies about wayward tugboats, ambitious trains and old snow shovels that have cruelly been retired too soon. In the first, a small, bored little engine chuffs away from the town of Little Snoreing toward such smoke-filled cities as High Yelling and Great Scolding only to learn that freedom...
...fear of writing a bad poem or being criticized or ridiculed by reading poems aloud stressing their intrinsic value, and withholding the writer's name. Never change a line, says Koch, just ask the writer what he meant. He suggest going around the classroom "encouraging good lines and discouraging wayward ideas." In his second book on teaching children great poetry called Rose, where Did You Get That Red, he has this to say for the class atmosphere...