Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said, "The object of our kind of theater is contact with contemporary life." If there was any particular way to appreciate this concept, as embodied by the Barrault company, it was by giving in to an unfamiliar abandon. The abandon which in Latin countries surrounds a fair or a visit from a traveling circus...
...Prepared to receive French Premier Guy Mollet (see FOREIGN NEWS), who is scheduled to visit Washington this week for two days of top-level talks...
...reign, but man could always make his own. and give his own reasons. The "rainbow bridge" (1 mile, 1.705 yds.) across the Tay estuary, with its curving, spidery iron girders, was the wonder of an age of railways and engineering. European princes and the Emperor of Brazil visited the marvel. Queen Victoria in her widow's weeds trundled safely across. The railway company that built it (between 1871 and 1877) said it was "a structure worthy of this enlightened age." General Ulysses S. Grant, who on a ceremonial visit was obliged to walk halfway across, said more soberly that...
With that, the lovable fraud departed, saying that he was going to visit his mother in Lawrence, and after that, look into a job offer from a Canadian newspaper. But at week's end Ferdinand Demara had vanished like a pleasant dream. Now, nobody knows where...
...James E. Roper one evening a fortnight ago, as he scanned the script turned in by Sevareid for his nightly five-minute analysis on the radio network. Through a series of pointed questions, the script challenged the wisdom of the State Department's refusal to let U.S. newsmen visit China. "I couldn't pass it; I couldn't defend this one," says Roper. He telephoned CBS News Director John Day at his Manhattan home and read him the text. Day agreed that it should not go on the air because Sevareid's opinion was showing...