Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Theroux says he has always been lured by the siren song of a train whistle: "I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it." Thus his trip represented a once-in-a-lifetime act of massive self-indulgence, plus the chance to experience firsthand "the trains with the bewitching names: the Orient Express, the North Star, the Trans-Siberian." As an added bonus, the trips threw him together with several novels' worth of offbeat characters...
...places where art was made or serious thought about it discussed. The world of production, as against consumption, is alien to Wolfe. Hence the scissors-and-paste flavor of The Painted Word. It is not just wrong history; it is not even firsthand reportage. There has been a long fall from - remember it?-the New Journalism...
...Thailand, American companies have more than $120 million invested, largely in rubber tires, textiles and electronics. Preparing to journey for a firsthand look at the Asian situation, National Semiconductor Corp. President Charles Sporck last week termed his company's Thai assembly plant "a source of concern." He added that despite Thai government assurances that the plant is secure, "to tell you the honest truth, I'm not so sure." In the first quarter of 1975, applications to invest in Thailand from U.S. and other firms fell more than 50% below a year ago. Says Mitsuo Unabara, a Japanese...
...past the president has often been denied access to community views because the government and community affairs office has exercised control over the neighborhood people he gets to see. But the visiting committee would go above the government and community affairs office, confronting Bok and the Overseers with firsthand community opinions. The visiting committee would also provide the Fellows and the Board of Overseers with information that these bodies are normally unable to obtain because of their distance from Harvard and their infrequent meetings...
With his socialist books no longer banned in Portugal, French Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, 69, felt encouraged enough to take a firsthand reading of the Portuguese revolution. During a 15-day visit to the country with his longtime friend, Author Simone de Beauvoir, 67, Sartre chatted with writers and students, toured a factory and dined in Lisbon's Red Barracks Canteen with the Light Artillery Regiment, most radical of Portugal's revolutionary forces. Despite his antimilitarism, Sartre seemed thoroughly reconciled to the Portuguese army, which, he said, "is not like any other" since it represents all classes...