Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THIS BEAR!, by Bernice Myers (Four Winds Press; $3.50). Dressed in his furry hat and coat, little Herman goes off to visit his Aunt Gert. He looks just like a bear, and that is just what a passing bear thinks he is. Herman has a terrible time trying to persuade the bears that he is really a boy. He sings and dances and ties his shoelaces, but Papa Bear only says, "See what happens when a bear has a chance to go to the big city and learn a trade...
...THERE'S HOPE WITH GROPE. Orange, green and magenta Gropius buttons blossomed on lapels, and one admirer wrapped himself up in a flame-and-gold package as a "present to Mr. Gropius." Harvard's favorite-son candidate, Architect Walter Gropius, had just returned from an 85th-birthday visit to his native Germany, and his disciples in Cambridge were not to be outdone in their esteem. Said Gropius, touched: "This is the grand finale to two weeks of birthday parties...
...with that sports car into some of these communities because I had decided that that would interfere with my relationship with these people. Well, it took me a long time to feel free enough to get to know some of these children well enough so that they could visit us in our home, and now, of course, I have found that these children love my sports car, and that these children don't begrudge me it, and that these children don't begrudge me a lot of the things that I begrudge myself...
...everything she saw, particularly the Americanization of Saigon ("a gigantic PX") and the moral corruption that, in her view, followed. Now it is North Viet Nam's turn. Last week the New York Review of Books published the first installment of her account of a recent 18-day visit. She was a special guest of North Viet Nam, and it shows. Her report reads like the journal of a house guest in the home of an extremely touchy host: "I felt that it would be somehow impolite to express my curiosity in the form of a point-blank question...
...amorous overindulgence. Then again it may just stem from the fact that he seems to have starred in so many recent comic novels. But Cassill's prose is swift, precise and clever, and on the strength of it Rodney may be worth one final evening's visit before he is turned out to pasture...