Word: journey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Belges, the double-decked stern-wheeler that he sailed up to Stanley Falls. Heart of Darkness conveys the dwarfing effect that the 1,000-mile journey must have had on the 32-year-old Conrad: "Trees, trees, millions of trees, massive, immense, running up high; and at their foot, hugging the bank against the stream, crept the little begrimed steamboat, like a sluggish beetle crawling on the floor of a lofty portico...
...emergence to compare with Napoleon's journey out of Elban exile to try to regain France. Nor was it precisely the great soap opera of redemption that occurred in the mid-'50s when the American people decided that Ingrid Bergman, disgraced adulteress, might be restored to favor. But somewhere in the historic procession from the majestic to the trivial, one might plausibly place Richard Nixon's trip to Hyden, Ky., over the Fourth of July weekend...
...premiere event. A Wimbledon victory represented vindication for this intensely proud and moody young Czech. "The Czech papers don't print my name," she said. "That's why I want to win Wimbledon. They'll have to print my name then." Her exile's journey ended with a sharp backhand volley at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. No less a traveler than Chris Evert acknowledged: "She has been through a lot of hurt and loneliness. She is tougher than...
Plays: Loeb Experimental Theater--"The Happy Journey," by Thornton Wilder, and "Where the Cross is Made," by Eugene O'Neill. One act each, with some improvisation. 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. today and tomorrow, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Loeb Drama Center. Free; pick up tickets at Loeb box office between noon and 6 p.m. the day of the show...
Plays: Loeb Experimental Theater--"The Happy Journey," by Thornton Wilder, and "Where the Cross is Made," by Eugene O'Neill. One act each, with some improvisation. 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. today and tomorrow, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Loeb Drama Center. Free; pick up tickets at Loeb box office between noon and 6 p.m. the day of the show...