Word: journey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Journey for Nothing. Leonardo comforted himself with violent denunciations of the world, expressed in some of the most savage cartoons ever drawn, and in cruel diatribes in his notebooks. "There are men," he would burst out, "who de serve to be called nothing else than passages for food, augmenters of filth, and fillers of privies!" He never married. He hated the ties of family. When his half-brother wrote him of the birth of a son, Leonardo congratulated him on "having provided yourself with an active enemy whose one desire will be for the freedom which cannot be his until...
When "Harold's" musical journey finally thundered to a halt, the audience gave the soloist a tremendous ovation. Bowing and smiling, Primrose had to return to the stage four times to acknowledge the applause. Whether the audience was merely clapping out of relief or appreciation for the performance, this writer will never know...
Anybody who passed long enough in his Collegeward journey to solve the Double Crostic in yesterday's New York Times would have found the name of the hidden author vaguely familiar...
...Dictators), Elinor Lipper (Eleven Years in Soviet Prison Camps), Zbigniew Stypulkowski (Invitation to Moscow) and Gustav Herling (^4 World Apart) were all graduates of Soviet prisons, and wrote of their experiences with skill. The reissue of French Traveler Astolphe de Custine's book of a century ago, Journey for Our Time, reminded moderns that, then as. now, Russia's rulers had a bent for despotism...
Virginia's Representative Howard Smith was sourest of all. "I came to Strasbourg to hear how European unity can be achieved," he said. "I have heard nothing except how it cannot be done." Moreover, commented Smith, "at the end of a journey through different European countries, you end up with all sorts of money and you can't even buy a cigar. There are too many passports, too many languages...