Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year will risk his life, not in the dark cells of the Lubianka prison below Dzerzhinsky Square, but in the wildly undisciplined traffic above. Moscow's streets are full of big, fast automobiles, all driven apparently by Sturmovik pilots intent on dive-bombing pedestrians. Or, as a recent visitor put it: "Dodging in and out of lanes, with nary a signal and with wild shouts of profanity at other cars, the Russian driver seems to be recapturing the elation felt by the Cossack of old when he swooped down from the steppes to carve up a few Persians...
...searching of faces, and a person looked at will turn away. Gorky Street may be as crowded as Fifth Avenue at lunchtime, but there is little or no window shopping, and there are always drunks .feeling their way along the walls. The best people do not walk and the visitor may be surprised by the number of chauffeur-driven limousines bearing small scrubbed boys...
...mass of people on the streets are mostly peasants in padded jackets, minor bureaucrats in bell-bottomed trousers and women workers in potato-sack dresses. One in ten carries a small bundled-up infant. To see Russians smile, the visitor must observe them playing with their children in the parks of culture and rest. In the back streets, scores of old men and women shuffle along hopelessly, but although they may look like beggars, it is unlikely that they will ask a recognizable foreigner for alms...
Band music blared through halls and locker rooms. Gold lettering on the carved plaques was obscured by heavy chalk slashes, proclaiming: "Beat Yale!" The rubber floor matting announced "Flog the Dog" in foot-high adhesive tape letters. The casual visitor to Dillon Field House would have been overwhelmed. These exhortations, however, were not designed to impress the casual visitor with the atmosphere and spirit at Harvard. Rather, they were directed at the football team, this week going through the practice routine for the last time this season. They were not window dressing appeals to "The Old College Try," but instead...
...most interesting visitor of the week was Britain's famed Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, who stormed Fitzsimons Army Hospital in a gorgeously gaudy uniform, with 38 ribbons in ten rows...