Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first interviewed Roald Sagdeyev, director of the Soviet Space Research Institute, who helped smooth the way for his trip to Moscow. "We'd watch waves outside our restaurant window, and that would lead to thoughts about plasma physics." The two hit it off so well that Sagdeyev agreed to visit a restaurant that Thompson co-owns in upstate New York. Alas, the rendezvous never came off: "I was pre-empted by Cornell Planetary Scientist Carl Sagan, who arranged an elegant Japanese dinner in Sagdeyev's honor...
Disneyland can be an enjoyable place to visit, but the spirit which guides Disneyland--that play can be managed--is an invidious one. It's also a philosophy beginning to hold such sway over the minds of officials of the state that more spontaneous displays of public enjoyment are starting to seem dangerous...
...wanted to visit Mississippi for a long time before this summer--not just to reminisce, but also because my memories were slipping away...
THIS PAST SUMMER, I embarked on a two-week journey into the South to visit my home-town. While Corinth, Miss. is not exactly my birthplace, it is the town where I grew up, established roots and have come to regard as home...
...this isn't an achievement. I've missed the slower, simpler life of the South. I liked living in a place where everybody knew everybody. I wanted clean air, trees, Grape Nehi, and tadpoles. Looking for the simple life, I'd visit my sister in Maine. But it wasn't the same...