Word: travelerism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The 1944 hotel-goer patiently stands in slow-moving queues at the understaffed registration desk. He rides to the wrong floors in jerky elevators operated by flippant, teen-age boys & girls or by deaf old gaffers. The call "Front" may bring a pint-sized bellhop, but usually the traveler totes...
Henry Wallace, traveler to China, looked up in surprise at this mention of politics. In a tone of gentle rebuke, he said he just did not understand what they were talking about. For himself, his mind was on China, on the world. Baffled, Sam Rosenman went back to his food...
At lunch Franklin Roosevelt faced a different Henry Wallace. The returned world traveler now talked plain, hard, name-calling, delegate-counting politics. He was sure of 290 delegates at the convention, said Wallace, far more than any other Vice Presidential aspirant. He named and bitterly denounced the men who were...
Little Civitella, nine miles off the main highway to Arezzo, has never been described by that careful German traveler, Karl Baedeker. But Italians will remember it.
In the brilliant and profound 54-page preface to Joseph and His Brothers (TIME, June 11, 1934), Mann said: "Very deep is the well of the past." Into this well, recorded history goes only a little way, and not truth, but mystery, lies in its fathomless depths. Yet the myths...