Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Easy travel, multiple opportunities for government service, and foundation and government research grants have physically detached Faculty from the University community and "encouraged the trend toward setting a monetary equivalent for all the fractions of the Faculty member's time...
...smash the reforming regime of Party Boss Alexander Dubček. Out of War saw crackled the news that a column of Russian troops was moving from the Polish city of Cracow toward the Czechoslovak border, and Western military attachés and diplomats were suddenly forbidden to travel outside the capital. Another Soviet force was reported heading from Dresden in East Germany toward Czechoslovakia, whose swift-paced "democratization" has lately alarmed Moscow and hard-lining members of the Eastern bloc...
...popularity of air travel went up and fares went down, Trippe's early prediction that aviation would make neighborhoods out of nations was largely fulfilled. Today, Pan Am flies into 86 countries on six continents along a route system covering over 80,000 miles. A privately run line that draws much of its competition from government-owned foreign carriers, Pan Am has grown from an original stake of $300,000 into a company with assets of over $1 billion and revenues that last year reached a record $950.2 million...
Heretofore, Pritchett's eminence has derived from his travel articles and books, his suavely ironic short stories and his book reviews (mostly for Britain's New Statesman), which make him a rival of Edmund Wilson as the best literary critic in the English language. Now an angry old man of 67, Pritchett vents some of the redbrick ferocity of early Osborne or Amis-though with more elegance-as he writes of the genteel poverty and violent lower-middle-class life that he survived...
This hefty, meticulous report on the authors meanderings and experiences in Spain is, he says, "a 19th century English-style travel book." Happily, it is that and much more. It is an unabashed celebration of an old infatuation with a country, and thus has the engaging, slightly breathless quality that is rarely found in modern travel books, now that the world has grown small...