Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from reading some 50 scientific journals each month, plus following an endless flow of reports and pamphlets, Leonard is constantly packing his bag, catching a train or plane to go to the source of a particular story for interviews and firsthand observation. These trips may range from a short visit to The Bronx Zoo (to spy on the activities of a surly platypus) to a 600-m.p.h. night flight in a radar-guided F94 to tell the story of the jet interceptors guarding the Atlantic coast...
...Washington week protocol-heavy with presidential banquets, reviews, wreath-layings and graceful speeches, their conquest of the U.S. capital will be complete. In fact, a healthy respect for the charms of the invaders went into the timing of their invitation: they were invited to make their visit after the foreign aid bill had been passed and while Congress was not in session, for fear that somehow Frederika might beguile the lawmakers into giving Greece more than its share...
...decree in which the then Bishop of Salamanca listed the books of Unamuno that were on the Index. In a sudden panic, the university changed the name of the Unamuno house, which was to be opened as a museum, to the Casa Rectoral. It canceled plans to visit Unamuno's grave, rescinded invitations to his relatives, barred the mention of his name in the program. Then university officials sat back to await the arrival of visitors...
...visitors seemed determined to pay him tribute. They queued up hour after hour to visit his house, decked his bust with flowers, trudged through rain and mud to place wreaths on his tomb. Finally they gathered in the great Ceremonial Hall, and as each one rose to congratulate the university, the forbidden name seemed to pop up, again and again and again. At the end of the ceremony, Rector Pedro Lain Entralgo of the University of Madrid launched into an impassioned eulogy of "one of the Spanish masters who will live forever, long after many generations have died...
...York reverts to terror in the face of a hostile and uncontrollable nature"; and that "the female secondary sex characteristic is the dominant theme in current American culture." Against this background of strange visions, Luigi Barzini Jr., a distinguished Italian journalist, has written a noteworthy book about a recent visit to the U.S. which is far above the usual off-the-French-cuff reporting. Even so, some of the book (a bestseller in Italy) is disturbingly close to the old analysis game. Like a cup of Italian caffe espresso, it stimulates but on occasion also sets the teeth on edge...