Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...immediate result of our visit to the Soviet Union," Macmillan continued, "may be said not to have been very great...
...prove his contention that there is no such thing as "no time for comedy," Behrman cites the story of Sigmund Freud's reaction when his apartment was looted by the Nazis. "How much did they take?" Freud asked. "$200." "That's more than I ever got for a visit," he replied...
...Behrman's favorite stories about Maugham concerns a visit to the estate of an American sculptress. The party came upon a gleaming white block of Italian marble, and Maugham exclaimed to the hostess, "That's the best thing you've ever done!" "But," the artist protested, "I haven't even started; it just came over from Italy. What on earth did you think it was?" "The Immaculate Conception," Maugham replied...
...young ladies of 47 Mt. Auburn St. removed the tables and hid the cups to make rooms for some 150 chairs and a platform for folksingers Bill Wood and Joan Baez. From the management's point of view, the evening was a success--standing room only and only one visit from Cambridge's Finest. And from the audience's somewhat partisan point of view the evening was great...
...movie (Island in the Sun). This week he starts filming his own picture, Odds Against Tomorrow, in which he is involved both as co-star and producer (through his own company, HarBel Productions). He has even achieved that peculiarly null century sign of distinction, a regular weekday visit to a psychoanalyst. His second wife and his nine-year-old daughter (by his first marriage) are in analysis, too; his first wife has already been analyzed...