Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Certainly he gives indications he will provide. Set in a place somewhere in Louisiana that is not altogether unlike a Williams, a Faulkner, a Welty locale, Kopit's play concerns the visit of an old school friend to the home of a robust insurance man, his supremely sensitive wife, and their brattish children. The visitor, Emmanuel Moon, a graciously sinister spectre, says he has come to collect on an adolescent promise made by George "Chopper" Feering, a raging "bull" who raised living standards in the country by convincing dying old men to buy insurance instead of medical care...
WASHINGTON, May 4--Harry S. Truman won't visit the White House he once occupied--even to meet his old friend Sir Winston Churchill...
...vacation time now," is his answer. "Visit us again in the fall or winter. Then there will be more students...
...himself 7 ft. 1¾ in. into space. Unofficially, it is held by the members of the Bolshoi Ballet, who last week bounded about the stage of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House like a herd of nail-tailed wallabies. In the second week of their eight-week U.S. visit, the Russian dancers proved that they can leap higher, farther and more daringly than anything north of Australia. More important, in some dazzling performances of Swan Lake, they gave Manhattan audiences their first look at the Soviet classical ballet linked to the lavish, lush dance style that is the source...
Wherever the analysts went, they left a wake of rising stocks. Almost all the companies visited rose as U.S. and European investors anticipated the analysts' reports. Britain's Edwards High Vacuum climbed 58% with the visit, and Germany's Siemens & Halske went up 5 points just ber fore the visitors went rubbernecking through a Siemens plant...