Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress movement. The Nehrus' mansion was a center for illegal Congress Party gatherings. Recalls Indira: "The most important meetings were on our lawn." Reprisals by India's British rulers were harsh, and often Indira watched one or both of her parents or grandfather being marched off to jail. A visitor to the Nehru home in those days remembers being informed by a grave-faced Indira that "I'm sorry, but Papa, Mama and Grandpa are all in prison...
...adjunct to the Center is a reference library and study, also open to the public, located on the mezzanine. Here the student or out-of-town visitor may consult reference books and read U.S. and foreign newspapers and magazines. These days the library also houses one elusive yellow-breasted finch, a dropout from last fall's live show on animal behavior. It stayed behind when the other Ijirds and bees were taken away, is living it up on the seed that the Center people set out every evening. Since no one has been able to lay a hand...
...public, Rusk kept his silence except to assure that when people "deal with me on the basis of confidence, that confidence will be respected." To a visitor he said, "Only two men know about my relations with President Kennedy. One of them is dead and the other won't talk." Nevertheless, he is known to be particularly resentful of Schlesinger's claim that Kennedy considered Viet Nam his own "great failure" in foreign policy because "he had never really given it his full attention." Schlesinger simply had no way of knowing of all the hours that the President...
...wall were the paintings, framed and titled, with prices on request. But no longer do the panes of varnish give onto idyllic visions of pinky Titian nudes, fluffy Millet sheep, plush Poussin valleys. Nowadays, avant-garde gallerygoing is more like the full 100 yards, with the visitors swivel-hipping through art works that threaten to tackle the visitor's body as well as his sensibilities (see color pages...
...understand how they accomplished Pru, much less Government Center. Whereas nearly every other major city has a main thoroughfare, a center, which it can color and jam and point to, Boston has a small area of delicate trees and historical graves. There is never any question in a visitor's mind as to where the heart of Boston is. Bawdy Washington Street and arty Newbury are mere auxiliaries. He returns to the Hill, to the Common. Tremont Street, he says, that must be it. But no, there just doesn't seem to be a main street. Aside from...