It's a place for encounters not journeys, epiphanies not ideologies.
It promises to be "a place for encounters, ideas and exchanges"; a site for citizens and experts to debate the future of the Mediterranean; an attraction where visitors will be "plunged into a subtle audiovisual experience".
Museums in this vein have been emerging as places for encountering cultural diversity through the social interaction of multiple voices and viewpoints of represented communities.
Final arrangements were put into place for the encounter with the ruler of Calicut.
It is the place of encounter.
One recent evening, after a longtime area resident ran into a group of old acquaintances, the waitress remarked, "This is the place for chance encounters.
Speaking of gayness, there's not a whisper of the Ramble's reputation as a place for homosexual encounters in THE RAMBLE IN CENTRAL PARK: A Wilderness West of Fifth (Abbeville, $35), Robert A. McCabe's book of splendidly soulful photographs of my favorite part of Central Park.
Researchers still think the Middle East is a likely place for the encounters.
For me exhibitions are a place for inventing: for encountering objects, images and events, in all their sensual and material complexity and imagining things about them why they were made, and what could they mean.
The path, for now, has become a network of connected trails and places of encounter, much less a transnational enterprise.
But many postal patrons cherish them as places for social encounter, to see the neighbors and catch up on the latest goings-on.
