Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every Eye. Ludwig's most famous effort was Neuschwanstein, whose Romanesque-Moorish turrets bedeck Bavarian travel posters. The carvings and furnishings from its marble and mosaic chapel, study and bedroom display a gaunt tension that clearly foreshadows the Jugendstil 30 years before its prime. Sketches for carved colonnades incorporate fantastic root-and-branch configurations that would have delighted Spain's art nouveau master, Antoni Gaudí. Ludwig's two other palaces both evoke the rococo splendors of Louis XIV of France. From Linderhof come tutti-frutti-colored, specially commissioned Sèvres porcelain, embroidered screens inspired...
Grosvenor's work is not only handsome but portable - indeed, some times floatable. A swooping, 40-ft.-long black T, recently seen at The Hague's Gemeentemuseum, has been taken apart and stored in a warehouse (the exhibition of which it was a part was supposed to travel to Paris, but May's riots intervened). A 21-ft.-long pair of red floats will soon be anchored a few yards off the shorefront home of a Connecticut couple who live on Long Island Sound near Greenwich...
...recent survey found Thos. Cook & Son to be by far the world's best-known travel agency. The same study reported that Cook's image was that of a stable but stodgy and relatively expensive company. In that sense, the travel agency that started it all in the early Victorian era, 127 years ago, has become a sleeping king of the travel industry. Smug and content with its middle-class clientele, it has ignored both old competitors and the newcomers to the business who have harnessed the boom of cheap package tours...
...Washed Shores. Back in 1841, Cook's started out as a temperance evangelist's venture into group travel. An ex-printer named Thomas Cook, busy saving souls on the gin-washed shores of the British Industrial Revolution, chartered a train for 570 followers to attend a temperance convention. The group traveled in open tube cars from Leicester to Loughborough and back for one shilling per head. Soon Cook began organizing group trips for a profit, and his company, Thomas Cook, Excursionist Agent, was firmly launched during Queen Victoria's Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1851. To this pioneering...
Less than Swiftian (though not without an occasional flicker of appeal) are Shapiro's modest proposals, which include raising the minimum age for drivers' licenses to at least 30, denying foreign travel to children unless granted as a privilege from their school, putting dissidents on reservations, and destroying all concepts of adolescence. He cannot be serious; yet one pokes vainly through Shapiro's overcooked simplifications for a scrap of wit or irony. Finding none, the reader concludes that To Abolish Children is little more than a late-middle-age temper tantrum...