Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sample of Soekarno's oratory: "Our ideal is an automobile for everybody. . . ." (At present few cars travel Java's pot-holed roads.) "I've just received a letter from a young girl who wants to be an airplane pilot. . . . That's right, hitch your aims to the stars. . . . We can laugh, we can eat and some day we can have clothes. . . . But our ideals will not be realized easily. We must struggle for them...
...makes no mention of it. European Witness is in the main a routine travelogue. It has flashes of fancy poesy ("poignant deep-green fields through which homesickness seems to bleed with a dark stain of greenish blood"), and a full share of the pedestrian details that pad out most travel books ("During the [week] days I went for three walks . . . once to the Cloisters of the Nikolaskirche, once to the Poppelsdorfer Schloss and once to the Beethovenhaus, which was closed"). It also has passages in which Poet Spender writes like a naive old schoolmaster-e.g., his report...
...many international sore spots. Franco Spain received only a routine rebuke; the veto is still too powerful a weapon in U.N. procedure; and trusteeship questions are still undecided. But the credits outweigh the debits, and the recent General Assembly Session may have charted a road on which nations can travel together in peace...
...realized that I could stay on and become a Big Wheel, or go to Harvard, work hard, and get what I wanted. I'm glad I chose Harvard." He is also glad that he went to Oxford later, on that Rhodes Scholarship. "In the third year they let you travel, and I went to China, as I'd always wanted to do." This was in 1932; he has spent half the years since then in China, with the OWI and the State Department...
When the Harvard Athletic Association went "big-time" and hired out the Boston Garden for a series of home basketball games, everyone benefited but the student fan. Charged sixty cents for admittance to games that were included in the price of a pre-war participation ticket, forced to travel across town and sit through whatever spectacle Garden authorities had rigged up to supplement Harvard basketball contests, the undergraduate partisan now finds himself isolated in the corners of the arena while the game goes on half-a-block and 15 pillars away...