Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ronald Reagan's European journey was an extraordinary history lesson written on prime time. All along the way, there were echoes of old struggles and triumphs, images of ancestors who fled the Continent and of their descendants who went back to fight. Time and time again the sound of bugles awakened memories that spoke of our closeness and common fate...
Reagan's journey marked the 35th June since Secretary of State George Marshall talked at Harvard about an immense rehabilitation plan for Europe. It was also the 21st anniversary of John Kennedy's first summit venture, during which he became so intimidated by the imperious Charles de Gaulle that he began to study French when he got home so he could be on equal terms with the old statesman...
...course Jake goes with Magda to Berlin and finds himself in far greater peril than he had imagined. But his rite of passage is not only the literal trek from East back to West but the psychological journey toward true maturity. Experiencing the sense of danger that his father must have felt so often during his exploits, Jake comes face to face with the enemy: "I have blamed the world, my father, mother, uncle, and wife for all my weaknesses. I have wallowed in self-pity." It is time, he decides, to enter the free world...
Buoyed by such acclaim, back in Rome a tired John Paul and his harried entourage barely had enough time to unpack, greet the visiting President Reagan, sketch plans, repack and take off Friday for Argentina. That journey of 7,000 miles carries no ecumenical agenda whatsoever; the population is 92% Catholic, compared with Britain's 13%. But while the basic purpose is pastoral, even more than in Britain the political landscape is dotted with opportunities for trouble. "The Pope's visit could weigh heavily in peace negotiations," La Prensa, the leading daily in Buenos Aires, warned last week...
...This one will. In Monday After the Miracle, William Gibson takes up the saga of Helen Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan, some 20 years after the events recorded in The Miracle Worker. In that play, Sullivan led the deaf and blind Keller in a long night's journey into light. The sequel is quite different. This is a tale of fiercely kindled passions and the bittersweet bondage of entwined destinies...