Word: journey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jewelry to hoarded bullion. India needs some $300 million additional credit this year, $500 million next year, more than a billion dollars by 1961. Desai found the situation so desperate that, to avoid defaulting on foreign payments, he was preparing at week's end to make his first journey outside India to plead his nation's case in London, Washington, Montreal. The trip was briefly jeopardized by Desai's ascetic refusal to be inoculated or vaccinated (he opposes on moral grounds the "injection of foreign substances into the body"). Fortunately, the Western countries exempted him from usual...
...Author Durrell, 46, brilliantly evoked the city of Alexandria, which has festered for 2,000 years between the sun-sparkling Mediterranean and the Egyptian desert. Balthazar covers the same terrain and time span as the first. It is as if the reader were making a return train journey through a landscape he had just crossed-only now he is sitting on the opposite side of the car and everything looks different...
Then came the flight to Peking-a journey that to gleeful Asians seemed to be Khrushchev's dutiful response to a hurry-up call from Mao. For four days, behind the ancient red walls of Peking's Imperial City, the two arbiters of the Communist world negotiated. When they emerged to shake hands for the photographers, the Peking line had become the Moscow line as well...
...There was never a great genius," said Aristotle, "without a tincture of madness." Part of Eugene O'Neill's genius lay in the fact that he could weave the near madness of his life into his plays. Long Day's Journey into Night showed how closely the life and the plays overlapped, and yet how brilliantly he was able to impose art on mere reminiscence. This book of recollections by his second wife is less than a work of art, but it adds some fascinating scenes to the growing script of Eugene O'Neill...
Author Agnes Boulton begins her story in 1917, five years after the end of Long Day's Journey, when O'Neill's first one-acters were making him the symbol and idol of the Provincetown Players. If, after 40 years, Author Boulton's memory is correct and young Eugene Gladstone O'Neill did woo and win her with the lines she attributes to him, it is no wonder that much of the story reads like a parody of Victorian melodrama. O'Neill once explained that he had trained himself as a playwright by reading...