Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have reached the conclusion," they said, "that preventive political censorship should be abolished at the present state of development." The mood of the people was euphoric -and solemn. More than 3,000 workers and students trekked in driving snow to the village of Lány outside Prague to visit the grave of ex-Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, who jumped or was pushed from a window to his death in 1948. The Communists, who have worked ceaselessly to obliterate the democratic patriot's memory, had kept crowds away from the grave for years. While a girl student played...
...began last summer, when Poland's highly placed Jewish minority balked at siding with the Arabs against Israel. Since then, the Jews' life has been increasingly uncomfortable. Last week the regime conspicuously made public the names of Jewish students arrested during the riots and decided, moreover, to visit the sins of the sons upon the fathers. It fired at least three top officials for their sons' complicity in the riots. In a nation that has often before rallied to antiSemitism, Gomulka's strategy seemed an ominous warning to Poland's 30,000 Jews-all that...
...people and are against independence, boycotted the ceremony. The capital was still shrouded in mourning for 24 persons killed in January riots between pro-independence and anti-independence forces. Continuing unrest led Princess Alexandra, who had planned to represent Queen Elizabeth at independence ceremonies, to cancel her visit...
This study group meeting was one of many that took place during Hamilton's two-day, Kennedy Institute-sponsored visit to Cambridge. With the release several months ago of Black Power: Politics of Liberation in America, which he co-authored with Stokely Carmichael, Hamilton has emerged as one of the principal Black Power theorists. At Harvard, the 18th campus he has visited since September, Hamilton said he wanted to pursue relevant political dialogue by beginning "at the point where the book ends...
...impact on whites and blacks was equally important and impressive, even if for different reasons. "It irks me," one black student commented, "that we see individuals like you once or twice a year, if that often. We need people like you here at Harvard and not just for a visit...