Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret paid a visit to a reclamation project, where the wind proved bitter arid the Queen proved adaptable. For the sake of her ears she put on a scarf; for the sake of appearance she left on her hat. The result faintly suggested a Conestoga wagon...
Rosy Prospects. Britten regarded his visit to the U.S. as a vacation trip "rather from the general European atmosphere than from overwork." Though his knowledge of the U.S. is pretty well limited to New York City and suburbs, he found the U.S. "a very rosy prospect" for composers : "The American composer has little to grumble at; compared with English composers, nothing." In fact, he saw a danger of "excessive nationalism" in the way conductors indiscriminately played U.S. music, and in American composers' search for a style of their own. Says Britten: "No accident of nationality has ever excused...
...Sunday Skip Stahley, coach at George Washington and a former Harlow assistant, dropped into Cambridge to visit friends, but apparently left town the next day. Biff Glassford, New Hampshire mentor, was the next caller. He too left for the hills after a short conference with Bingham...
Socialist Premier Cyrankiewicz was smugly happy himself. At the customary Kremlin banquet, more than half the members of the busy Politburo had turned up-an unusual honor. Moreover, he had had an hour's visit with Stalin, who was in a big-brotherly mood. What had they talked about? Soon after the Polish mission got back, accounts began to go around: they had chattered about the world situation and about left-wing socialism; Stalin believed that there was a place for socialists in a "people's democracy" if they stay far enough left; Stalin did not believe there...
Worn-out clothing and outworn books will flow from College dorms into the hands of Brooks House canvassers this week as PBH opens a drive to collect these items for distribution in Europe. Working with the Harvard Food Relief Committee, PBH workers will visit every student room before next Thursday...