Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very little mutual contact has been established. "Relations between Arabs and Jews aren't bad--they are just non-existent," a cynical inhabitant of Jerusalem told me during my visit two months...
...random notes at the beginning to the theater, book and movie reviews at the end, the publication is sharply written, crisply edited Tom Wolfe examines the confusion of accents in the city and how they unfailingly give away the speaker's social status. Milton Glaser and Jerome Snyder visit "one of the last remaining Old World markers" under the elevated in East Harlem. Gloria Steinem re-creates the years that Ho Chi Minh spent in New York, when he worked as a waiter and laundryman. And a freelance reviewer, Clare Boothe Luce, discovers that John Kenneth Galbraith...
...fighting dinner hour in an old folks' home; Cecil Beaton, 64, describing his "first signs , of , loneliness" and his denture problems; a' Septuagenarian marriage ceremony in which the bride momentarily forgot the name of the groom; a daughter guiltily registering her arthritic father in a home. A visit to Continental spas showed elderly people desperately trying" to reverse the clock by means of surrealistic exercise machines and lamb-gland injections. But perhaps the most poignant was the closing scene -a tottering music-hall hoofer, reduced to playing a pub, tearfully singing When I Grow Too Old to Dream...
Virtually everyone involved in the transplant was on the move. Blaiberg expected soon to go to a seaside cottage south of Cape Town, and was talking about a 1969 visit to Europe. Surgeon Christiaan N. Barnard was in Europe again with brother Marius, and pondering an invitation to Moscow. Dorothy Haupt, widow of the donor of Blaiberg's heart, accepted a trip to Buenos Aires for TV appearances, with $1,000 added...
Last week Valentino and his clothes were in Manhattan, and by any . designer's standard, his visit was a triumph. "I'm a no-color man," he warned and then unleashed a bevy of models in all kinds of lacy, creamy shades of off-white. Swirling daytime dresses, gently skimming the knee, were worn with soft scarves and puffy berets. Heavily jewel-encrusted and embroidered vests gave sparkle and style to tailored white linen evening suits. Biggest hit of all was a trimly tailored, above-the-knee white coat boldly trimmed with Valentino's "V," emblazoned...