Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the great day came Princess Elizabeth, expecting her child in mid-November, stayed behind at Buckingham Palace. She was looking out of a window when the Irish State Coach (built for Queen Victoria's visit to Dublin) left the palace gate. Londoners packed along the procession route stopped blowing their noses and forgot the biting October wind. A rustling murmur went up: "Here they come...
...first visit to Europe in 20 years had helped do the trick. Attending scientific conferences in Brussels and Birmingham, Oppenheimer had learned how despairing the life of the intellect had become in postwar Europe. Viewed from Princeton, the Institute might have its shortcomings; viewed from Europe, it had something of the special glow of a monastery in the Dark Ages...
Wrapped up in the persons of Max von Laue and Hideki Yukawa, some of the best German and Japanese physical ideas were on hand at the Institute last week. The two were the first German and Japanese physicists to visit the U.S. as free agents since the war's end. (Several years ago the Institute invited two Russian mathematicians, but one regretfully declined and the other neglected to R.S.V.P...
Meredith refused to forgive her, a circumstance that led his early biographers to consider him hardhearted. Mary Meredith wandered from place to place, unhappy and alone; her husband was relentless until just before her death, when he allowed their son to visit her. Out of the tragedy of their life, Meredith fashioned the stylized poetic sequence, Modern Love, fifty 16-line sonnets of what Sassoon calls "highly perfected workmanship, constructed as a finely woven monodrama, and abounding in memorable passages and variety of mood." Poet Sassoon had thought that it must have taken him at least three years to finish...
...went to the Hygiene Department for a routine excuse from physical training, I was stealthily given some sort of sleep drug. Later, I discovered that while I was unconscious the doctors had, without my permission or extra charge, performed a radical prefrontal lobotomy on me, Specialists that I have visited since (at $25 a visit) have advised me that the Hygiene Department did wrong. I do not think so. Ever since the operation, I've led a happier, more contented existence. Nothing worries me; my roommates love me. My grades also have improved markedly...