Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hence an enthroned respectability. Men were known to play tennis in top hats. The Biblical historian. H. H. Milman, was ostracized for calling Abraham a sheik. The Victorian Sunday was as cheer less as a steel engraving; the Victorian matron went swathed in undergarments and taboos; the Victorian tourist, with a former Baptist missionary, Thomas Cook, for guide, came home from the Continent more insular than he had gone away; and there is the famous tale of the Victorian playgoer who, emerging from one of the more murder-strewn royal Greek tragedies, murmured: "How different from the home life...
...occasional tourist, the Sigurimi appear more comic than lethal. Whole platoons of gumshoes peel off two by two to shadow individual visitors. Any attempt to talk to an Albanian results in his being shouldered out of earshot by an agent. One tourist on the beach at Durres succeeded in evading his shadow by swimming out beyond the breakers to accost an Albanian girl in a bikini. The girl, treading water, said: "I would like to have a long talk with you, but you must know that in this country it is impossible...
HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 15--A tourist supposedly vacationing in the scenic Sierra Maestra Mountains was captured today and exposed as a Yankee imperialist spy while distributing counter-revolutionary propaganda under the guise of humor...
Though the bar is located in an old, dark building on a narrow side street off the Place Vendome, Americans still seek it out as if Harry's were another tourist spot like the Louvre, and on U.S. election nights the proprietor installs a Teletype machine so that people can watch the results...
...anti-war message is almost a backdrop; the meeting of East and West and accident. But the film clips of the bombing are so brutally horrible that only shock protects the viewer; the contrast between native and tourist is dramatic...