Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Humphrey Bogart, of Benedict Canyon, Calif., and wife Lauren Bacall left home unexpectedly for a day's visit with friends. The Bogart boxers had killed a skunk in the backyard, laid it triumphantly on the front doorstep, and then romped joyously through the house...
Salvador Dali, supersalesman of limp-watch surrealism, honored Madrid with a visit and modern art with an offer of leadership: "My name is Salvador because I am destined to save modern painting from laziness and chaos . . . The world is going through the middle ages, but a renaissance will follow." He would soon be ready to lead that renaissance: "The world's greatest painters were Velasquez and Raphael -every day I feel I am getting closer to them." There was no challenger. Picasso? "Picasso's works are pseudo-decorative and they all look like rugs...
...When I visit the museum of fine arts and look at the pictures, and when I happen to admire them, I don't first assure myself that the painter was a good man . . . [But] is it possible that the visible presence of the artist makes a relevant difference? For in applauding his performance we are applauding the whole man there before us-the man with his entire past peering through his present. . . I admit that I keep away from performances by [Nazi] collaborators; I don't want to go . . . [but] the point is that while my feelings point...
...Montevideo, a story went round. Uruguay's own first lady, handsome, retiring Dona Matilde Ibanez de Batlle Berres, a woman whose chief interests are her three children and her garden, had made one of her rare public appearances in an official visit to an elementary school in Flores Department. When Senora de Batlle Berres came into one of the classes, the teacher, anxious to show off her pupils, called on an eight-year-old for the name of the wife of the President of the Republic. Blurted the radio-prepped moppet: "Dona Eva Maria Duarte de Peron...
...Security Council, Juan Atilio Bramuglia had put the name of Argentina high on the list of big-time diplomacy. Few Argentines knew that. President Juan Domingo Peron had told Argentina's controlled press and radio to ignore Bramuglia. The cold-shoulder treatment extended even to Bramuglia's visit to Washington, where last week he talked with President Harry Truman and top Government officials...