Word: passport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...command and the caretaker government of Acting President Huh Chung. Outraged that Huh had arranged Hawaiian exile for fallen President Syngman Rhee (TIME, June 6), student mobs marched in Taegu and Seoul last week, chanting "Huh Chung, quit!" Answered Huh: "I could not refuse this unfortunate old man a passport. Besides, I thought his departure would help clear up rumors of counterrevolution...
...only frozen apples-to take. So I took what there was." Emphasizing his view, he added: "Gauguin went to Tahiti, but the Gauguin who painted before Tahiti remained. Van Gogh in Holland-The Potato-Eaters-is very important. Experience, yes. Gauguin had an experience. But experience is not a passport to the company of Rembrandt." What is? "Genius...
...story, even though Mexican authorities were able to prove he was actually a Spaniard named Ramón Mercader, a convinced Communist who fought on the Loyalists' side in the Spanish Civil War, was later enrolled in the Soviet NKVD, and eventually reached Mexico on the passport of a Canadian who had been killed in Spain while fighting with the International Brigade...
Miriam finally left the group to join a touring musical variety show, then got the female lead in a Negro jazz opera called King Kong (based on a true story of a prizefighter who killed his mistress). In 1958 restless Singer Makeba applied for a passport, and after a year's wait she was on her way to London. From there she moved on to Manhattan's downtown Village Vanguard, then uptown to the Angel. The little girl from Prospect Township is making $750 a week, which could be eight years' rent for a native family...
Nine Strokes. Music is the hero's passport to the country of the sighted. An instructor catches him playing the organ by ear, enrolls him in music classes, and the budding musician makes new friendships with Copenhagen's musicians and painters (Bjarnhof himself has toured as a cellist). When sight finally fails him completely at the telltale light switch, he has the spunk and serenity to bear it. He likens the morning's church chimes to "nine prayer strokes. Three for the night that's past. Three for the day that's coming. Three...