Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europe last week, there was the perceptible rumbling of Germans on the move. By car, canoe, and kayak, the advance guard of 1.2 million German campers in Lederhosen and halters swarmed all over Europe in an annual migration that has made the German camper Europe's most ubiquitous tourist and unseated the camera-toting American as the most unwelcome guest. Said a Cologne industrialist at his campsite: "I look upon camping as a denial of the materialism that has sprung up in Germany. Outdoors we can turn our backs on our material gains and try to find the answers...
...This dubious responsibility fell either to hacks or to travel-ad salesmen; when the Milwaukee Sentinel, a Hearstpaper, decided to beef up its travel department, it reached into the ranks of the advertising department for an editor. Most travel stories were no more than barely rewritten handouts from railroads, tourist centers and Miami Beach...
That Venice's venerable Biennale should hit an alltime low this year was no real surprise to Italian critics. Over the years, they have watched it shrink in artistic importance almost in proportion to its growth as a tourist attraction. They suspect that art is not so much the object as attention-getting shock appeal, and the scramble for one of the four $3,200 "official" prizes that automatically boost an artist's prices on the international art exchange. Said Milan's Corriere Lombardo: "The Biennale has lost its artistic heritage; it is of interest now only...
...heavily Anglicized in cast and directors, was originally housed in a huge tent, eight miles from the town of Shakespeare; the festival moved indoors-in 1957, and its parasol-roofed theater makes Ontario's the only Stratford with true arena staging. More a purist than a tourist mecca, the festival has nonetheless lured nearly 1,000,000 theatergoers, for a box-office gross of $3,000,000. Much of Ontario's pulling power has stemmed from Tyrone Guthrie, perhaps the ablest living Shakespeare director, who likes to take a lesser-known play and tilt it like a kaleidoscope...
...Lombard plain and the snowy crest of Mont Blanc. The grim battlements of Sforzesco Castle still brood over their grassy moat, and Leonardo da Vinci's faded master piece, The Last Supper, is slowly peeling on the wall of the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie. The curious tourist will have a difficult time finding a notorious wartime monument: the gasoline station where the battered bodies of Benito Mussolini and his brunette mistress, Claretta Petacci, dangled by the heels. Political passion is not a common Milanese trait, and few like to recall that lynching...