Word: greetings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Normally the Pope gives neither interviews nor press conferences, but during the long flights on the papal plane, John Paul usually takes time not only to greet reporters but to listen carefully to their questions and provide remarkably direct and thoroughgoing answers. "During our 1979 flight to Mexico," Wynn recalls, "John Paul told me that he planned to visit the U.S., the first time this had been revealed. On subsequent trips, he gave me meaty answers about keeping priests out of politics and on his plans to visit Poland in 1983 in spite of the country's state of martial...
...Chicago, where the skyscraper was born and raised, they try to greet new buildings with an open mind, if not always with open arms. But confronted with a civic structure that looks a bit like a celestial sports arena, Chicagoans have vacated the middle ground and formed vehemently opposing camps. John Zukowsky, curator of architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago, thinks "it has the potential to be the next 'image' of Chicago." Heaven forbid, says Architect Harry Weese. "Tinselly and decadent," he growls. "The building will be an oddity, like the Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood." People are choosing...
...butler, waiting. Over in the Oval Office, her husband had just finished the most consequential diplomatic meeting of his first term, last fall's tete-a-tete with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Now, for a few minutes, she was to do her duty as First Lady, to greet and charm the visitor from Moscow...
...appears that it was never Dr. Counter's concern to address these questions. A group of Black students stood waiting in the foyer of Lehman Hall hoping to get a glimpse of Mr. Hooks before he was whisked to his limousine. Hooks spotted these students and went over to greet them warmly, causing a look of horror to cross Dr. Counter's face. Did he believe that the adornment of a black tie was necessary to give legitimacy to a Black student...
What can indeed be even more humiliating than the physical impediments facing the disabled are what they say are the often patronizing attitudes or the lack of understanding with which their fellow students and teachers greet their problems...