Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Count Hermann Keyserling, 65, German philosopher-critic (The Travel Diary of a Philosopher), founder of the Darmstadt "School of Wisdom"; in Innsbruck, Austria. The Nazis hated the bearded mystic for his anti-nationalism, in 1942 declared him "unworthy to represent the German spirit"; U.S. lecture audiences of the '20s loved him despite his tart depictions of the U.S. as a humorless, soulless, overly intellectual matriarchate...
...made a farewell speech before the Pilgrims society in Manhattan. Said he: "I felt I could not pretend to any knowledge of this vast and varied country unless I had seen as much of all of it as was compatible with the claims of my work in Washington. ... By travel I acquired a truer sense of proportion about Anglo-American relations, about my work, and even about myself...
Andrew Kotalik, who once worked as a boilermaker for the Lackawanna Railroad, summed up his recent life in words that contracted the world's dimensions more strikingly than air-travel statistics and which made peace terms seem more real than all the speeches of statesmen: "From de war we ain't had enough. From de Joimans we ain't had enough. Den dem bandit fellers come and dey boint down de houses' and boint my horse and four sheepses. Excuse my English, but can't you folks do something for us folks...
...Travel-hungry Americans have always liked Canada's wide open spaces and the fact that the U.S. dollar was worth $1.10. Now there was another reason for their desire to trek northward: a heavy-handed price control had kept food, lodging and entertainment prices well below U.S. levels. They had also been lured on by splurges like the $750,000 spent this year by the Canadian Pacific Railroad to advertise its hotels, by tons of gaudy literature, by newspaper and magazine ads plugging everything from Quebec's salty seaweed-fed lamb to junkets to Alaska and Hudson...
...traveler exposed to cholera in Naples can land in New York the next day without realizing that he has picked up the disease. A homeward-bound Denverite may leave a typhus area in China, sit down at his own table two days later, unaware that typhus germs are at work in his system. Because the incubation period for many diseases is a fortnight or longer, air travel has multiplied the chances of travelers' bringing disease home with them. Yet the quarantine system has scarcely changed in 500 years...