Word: traveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nice Road But. To avoid the Intruder, planes travel 20 miles to another beacon erected in a treetop where they hover in holding patterns. Here the danger is perhaps greater. Other planes from Gabon loaded with arms and ammunition also join the pattern; sometimes as many as 20 ships are circling simultaneously, some assigned the same altitudes by inexperienced Biafran ground controllers. The sight of fire-bright exhausts in the African night is slim comfort to other flyers. Says Swedish Pilot Ulf Engelbrecht: "If all the pilots some night were to turn on rotating beacons and clearance lights, a dozen...
When Czechoslovakia eased travel restrictions about five years ago, Western intellectuals ventured there with the wary air of men exploring some dark continent. They were surprised to dis cover that many Czechs were familiar with the plays of Samuel Beckett and Edward Albee, and had kept abreast of other Western cultural developments. If they dropped into Prague's Café Slavia around 4 p.m. any afternoon, they could have encountered several of the reasons why. A group of artists and writers who meet there have for years been assiduously importing and translating Western books, plays and art publications...
Life, however, rejects his resurrection. He is fired from his job as a travel clerk ("Who wants their annual holiday booked by a former corpse?"), branded an anathema by society ("As long as Godfrey were to live and work among people,' each one would be faced constantly with the fact of his own death"), and even resented by his family for the inconvenience of his miracle ("We're Before and After people now," laments his wife). His life after death, not surprisingly, becomes a downhill slide: the authorities strip him of his children, his neighbors stone...
Some have said the physical world of the dorms is made for moles. The visual environment is constricting. Single rooms are laid out on either side of long hallways covered with travel posters and yellowing cartoons. Most rooms are divided among two occupants, two radios and a record player. Everything is horizontal except the people, but they are what we are trying to get away from. People are everywhere, just hanging around. The sense of being under observation is so strong it sometimes seems the hallways are tunnels hung with rolling eyeballs. There are no free distances for the eyes...
Pollack and his staff are also tailoring a number of the health plan's tactics to meet the special needs of the poor. Staffs of recruiters will travel through Mission Hill neighborhoods and encourage people to come in for check-ups and preventive care...