Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...EUROPEAN TRAVEL JOURNAL - Lewis Henry Morgan-Rochester Historical So- ciety...
Morgan's European Travel Journal gives a better picture of the man than of his achievements or his professional standing. But it suggests the rich observations that may remain in the 18,000 unpublished pages of Morgan's writing, now packed away in the library of the University of Rochester...
...paintings and drawings of archaic Greek and Oriental forms, Spanish bullfighters, imagined figures from history, were fresh, economical, expert. Her evening of pantomime to music was a reassuring exhibition for devotees and newcomers alike in a large, light-hearted audience. And in her briskly written account of Mediterranean travel, study and U. S. trouping, critics found a key to the pleasures of mime that many of them, had long fumbled for in vain. This key was, simply, vaudeville...
...travelers whizz over the surface of their country, picking up such information as they can get from signboards, gasoline station attendants, road maps, Chamber of Commerce handouts. They race past the biggest factories on earth, rarely pausing to wonder what is made in them. They look out across scenery unparalleled, but only occasionally know the names of the mountain peaks or yawning canyons that take their breath away. They sail through little towns where battles have been fought, insurrections planned, U. S. history made, but usually see only what lies beside the highway as they watch for crossroads and glance...
Thanks to the tradition founded by Gauguin, Tahiti was for several generations the most famed South Sea island. Now it is Bali. Six weeks ago, Miguel Covarrubias' handsome travel book, Island of Bali (TIME, Nov. 22), did Bali up brown; last week Vicki Baum's latest novel added a few trimmings...