Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sewers, transportation and regional planning. Larger districts afford advantages in financing and the efficiency of more centralized facilities and staffing?as the whole drive toward rural school consolidation demonstrates. That, too, involves expanded busing, but is now widely accepted. Placing schools along the fringes of segregated neighborhoods could minimize travel for whites and blacks and avoid sending either group into totally foreign environments...
...string." So wrote Andrei Voznesensky in a 1967 letter to Pravda protesting censorship. Pravda pigeonholed the letter, but it appeared in the West, and since then Russia's most brilliant young poet has been scarcely published in his own country, and he has repeatedly been refused permission to travel to the West. The author's latest play, Look Out for Your Faces, was in rehearsal for nine months while awaiting clearance from the Ministry of Culture...
...head. Shocking? Not a bit, for over the past four years the residents of this tiny West African nation have shrugged off the sight of Swedes-nude or clothed -who each winter desert their frosty homeland for a gambol on Gambia's beautiful white sand beaches. As a travel brochure puts it: "If you like, you can swim nude alone-so huge are the beaches and so few are the tourists...
...many of us have determined to travel on our own, seeking the kind of free mental space in which to observe, imagine, write, only to find that a woman is never as free as a man to bum across country or through Europe. Ever try to sit down in a park with a book or a sketch pad for more than five minutes without some character feeling it his obligation to make an attempt at picking you up? Of course you can get rid of him but your peace of mind is shattered for that...
Because Columbus grew up on the coast, in Genoa, Italy, he developed a firm love of the sea and sea travel. He also grew up with books, constantly increasing his knowledge of the humanities and the sea around...