"Included in that definition is a sojourn abroad, especially since the end of the Cold War," said Mr. Davis.
He spent the following summer at the American University in Cairo — a sojourn that launched a career in public speaking.
In a late section (the story is told in chapters corresponding to the seasons) a death in the family calls him from London back to his hometown, Hull, a sojourn that serves as a reminder of how, in today's Britain, class divisions often persist in the form of regional disparities.
For a time in the 1980s he lived in China, where he taught in Beijing at the Central College of Fine Arts and Crafts, a sojourn that ended with a retrospective of his work at the Museum of the Chinese Revolution (now the National Museum of China) in Tiananmen Square.
At age 27 he bought his first store; he spent the next 17 years dabbling in various fashion enterprises, a sojourn that delivered some mild successes and outright failures.
As HVOB depart American shores towards a second leg of a sojourn that'll see them criss-cross from Beirut to Berlin to Cairo and Stockholm, the album they whispered into the world while here will echo in wait of their return.
It's no surprise that Bishop and Lowell come through as masters of the art and craft of communication with clarity and often with beauty, but is that enough to make a sojourn with them compelling or interesting?
The exhibition at the Kopeikin will run unti June 7, so I suggest that you take a sojourn down La Cienega and visit it.
It wasn't, however, until the 1950s that his career began to take off after a sojourn in Italy that allowed him to study the antiquities of Rome, Greece and Egypt, giving him a feeling for the timeless, the monumental.
It is a controlled artistic chaos, a set of chemical reactions so staggeringly complex that more than 4 billion years ago it began a sojourn that now, in human form, composes love letters and uses silicon computers to calculate the temperature of matter at the birth of the universe.
