Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motorcade stopped at City Hall shortly before 5 p.m. During the brief visit he addressed City Hall employees in the Council chamber. He then walked in the Council chamber. He then walked through Central Square, shaking hands with passers-by, while a loudspeaker atop one of his cars announced his presence...
Another highlight of Kennedy's afternoon visit to Cambridge is a trip to the Jewish Community Center at 6:30. A public reception in the Hotel Commander at 8:00 rounds out his schedule...
Moral Atrophy. Seven months ago Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka's Red government, which wants to silence all "destructive" criticism but hesitates to act too precipitately, gave Marek Hlasko a passport to visit Western Europe. In Paris he was interviewed by the weekly L'Express. Was he a Communist? "There is no such thing as a Communist." What were the differences between France and Poland? "I think that people here are able, at least to some extent, to get an element of joy out of life." What was it like to live under Communism? "The misfortune...
...most men felt in the presence. It was in a sense ironic that this sophisticated diplomat, member of old Roman aristocracy, should become so popular a Pope. Before World War II, a papal audience for a layman was a prestigious and protocol-encrusted enterprise. Under Pius XII, however, a visit to the Pope was heartwarming and almost informal (he often studied the sports pages of newspapers as carefully as the political news, because at many audiences he was required to talk more about sports than politics...
...tragedy is lived. The director has a sense of life far larger than the merely tragic. Moreover, he has humor. The picture bubbles over with gentle laughter at the absurd things people do and are, and the set pieces of comedy-a day at school, a band concert, a visit to the village theater-are just about as funny as organized humor...