Word: sojourn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always been a fascinating literary exercise-particularly because a fable, if it is classic, sends the imagination soaring far beyond its own spare telling. Thomas Mann got four dense volumes out of exploring the emotional and theocratic implications of a few chapters in the Bible describing Joseph's sojourn in Egypt. With less weight but more easy charm, British Author David Garnett has done the same thing with the story of Noah...
...most reluctant rubberneck in Egypt last week was Communist China's Premier Chou Enlai. Granted only three sessions with President Nasser during his week's sojourn in Cairo, Chou was propelled relentlessly through the list of VIP tourist attractions: an automobile plant, a museum, Egypt's military academy, the Aswan Dam. When his hosts insisted on a close-up inspection of the Sphinx, Chou asked plaintively: "Do I have to go? I've already seen it from a distance...
...line similar to the one that Zemel will use. But there is an additional issue involved here. While Zemel never left the United States and Worthy was not carrying a passport, the fifty-nine students were all armed with valid U.S. passports. Can the government hold that the sojourn of an American on Cuban soil invalidates an otherwise valid passport...
After a four-month, $4,000,000 sojourn in Vienna for treatment of a duodenal ulcer, Saudi Arabia's King Saud, 61, returned to his desert capital of Riyadh last week. At the airport he received full honors and an embrace from his half-brother and heir, Crown Prince Feisal. But it was hardly a triumphal homecoming, for Saud is now no more than a figurehead ruler...
...first of three volumes to be published), Camus recorded his early speculating, tentative theories and spontaneous observations. Like notes found scattered along a trail, they not only indicate his destination but also why he chose it. This volume covers his youth in his native Algeria, summer's sojourn in Europe, and the first somber years in occupied Paris...