Word: safari
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This is no ordinary undergraduate play. It is neither pretentious nor a clumsy piece of juvenilia that one sponsors but secretly dislikes. In fact John Hallowell's Safari is even more than "promising." It is amusing and polished, even moving at times. And of all curious things to receive from an undergraduate playwright, it is a good evening's entertainment...
...Safari, Hallowell attempts what every young writer attempts and usually fails at. He writes from his own experience and, God bless us, generally succeeds in changing personal trauma into...
...These were later worked into finished watercolors. oils, or engravings. At first, Thomas, who was then in his late 30s and had trained at the Royal Academy, did most of the drawing, leaving the mechanical tasks to William; but William rapidly developed into a competent artist, and before the safari was over was signing many pictures himself. Much impressed by the gateway leading to Akbar's Tomb at Sikandra, William noted in his diary that the road approaching it is "covered with Buildings & Ruins the Whole way. The Whole put one in mind of the Appian Way on account...
...president of Sanitary Farms Dairy, Erie, Pa., and his wife took a six-month African safari in 1950, with stops in Paris, London and Rome. The Tax Court permitted the firm to deduct $16,443 for costs of the trip on the ground that it constituted legitimate "advertising...
...current Brussels safari, the Lord Privy Seal* hand-picked a high-echelon band of astute and experienced civil servants. Headed by Sir Pierson Dixon, Britain's ambassador in Paris, they are known as "the Flying Knights" because of their titles and breathless commuting between capitals. With their support, the Lord Privy Seal has won a degree of respect from the Eurocrats that is rarely granted British officials on the Continent. Round the horseshoe table in the faceless slab that houses Belgium's Foreign Ministry on Brussels' Rue des Quatre Bras, they soon discovered that Heath...