Word: traveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your own. I left a reading of every word with a sense of completeness; the Bach violin partitas began sounding through my mind as I got up. You caught the heart of the Bachian Restoration in a magnificent end-of-year cadenza. What is better for space travel than the accompaniment of Bach? Long live Bach...
...hope is conditional and still remote. The triumph of Apollo 8 cannot erase the irony that it is easier for man to go to the moon than to wipe out a ghetto, easier for him to travel through space than to clean up his own polluted atmosphere, easier for him to establish cooperation in a vast technological enterprise than to establish brotherhood on a city block. Yet as man has conquered the seas, the air and other natural obstacles, he has also at each stage, in a small way, conquered part of himself. Therein lies the hope and the ultimate...
...looked a decade older than his 41 years, they were bundled into three olive-drab U.S Army buses and driven to the United Nations Command's advance camp in the Korean demilitarized zone. They were fed and given field jackets and toilet kits. Eventually pronounced fit to travel to the U.S., they boarded two giant...
...days before, at Athens' international airport. There, a New York-bound Boeing 707 belonging to El Al, the Israeli airline, and carrying 41 passengers and a crew of ten had just moved away from its loading ramp when two men dashed onto the runway. Opening a canvas travel bag, they snatched out an automatic rifle and four incendiary grenades and fired a fusillade of bullets at the fuselage. They killed one passenger...
...Gyalmo and Chogyal travel in the West for about two months a year, which helps to overcome any surge of homesickness, but Hope admits that she sometimes misses "cheese, the Sunday New York Times and the sea." Still, those are hardly important. Hope says: "My happiest times are right here in Sikkim. Being a queen is nice because it gives you a whole fabric, a structure, and because there is so much we need to do. I feel accepted, very comfortable, very inspired and completely happy...