Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Japanese relations were at their lowest postwar ebb. Student demonstrations against their country's security pact with Washington had culminated in the cancellation of a visit to Tokyo by President Eisenhower. In world affairs Japan still labored under the inferiority complex of a conquered nation. That fall, Foreign Affairs ran an essay titled "The Broken Dialogue" by Dr. Edwin Oldfather Reischauer, director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute dealing with Far Eastern studies. In his article Reischauer pointed up the "weakness of communication between the Western democracies and opposition elements in Japan"-and so impressed President-elect Kennedy that...
...report on alcoholism. Time evidently lay heavy on Coppolino's hands. His wife would leave the house in their blue Chevrolet every morning for her job in a Nutley laboratory. Coppolino, according to the watchful neighbors, would stroll out to his mailbox and then up the street to visit Marge Farber, whose husband had gone to work in a Manhattan insurance office. Then, on July 30, 1963, Farber died. The death certificate was signed by Carmela, who listed the cause as coronary thrombosis...
...Newfane, Vt., summer home, Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, 57, reports that he is dutifully turning out a new book "one dreary page after another." University of Virginia Professor J. D. Forbes, 56, a specialist in business history, is flying kites and writing detective stories while on a visit to his married daughter in California. So long as they are encouraged, even pressured, to fly jets, it seems likely that fewer and fewer faculty members will get to fly kites in the future...
Descartes at 5 a.m. "Learning was to Christina what needles and thread were to other women," wrote a contemporary. When Queen of Sweden, she personally invited scholars from all of Europe to visit her country. For her own edification she commanded the French logical philosopher Descartes to tutor her at 5 a.m. (he contracted flu in the chilly Scandinavian dawns and died). The great composer Alessandro Scarlatti even dedicated an opera...
Vault in the Vatican. Her love of art helped sever her from the stern Lutheranism that her father preached by the sword. Contrary to the religious statutes of her country, Christina converted secretly to Roman Catholicism in 1654. She left Sweden ostensibly to visit a spa to the south, then set out across Germany disguised as a knight, and a year and a half later entered Rome regally. Legend has it that she wore embroidered gilt breeches to her first Communion...