Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became the country's first President, set about at breakneck pace to convert Mozambique into what he calls "Africa's first Marxist state." All land was nationalized. The large colonial plantations, which supported more than half of the population, were organized into collective farms. But, reports one visitor, "nobody can agree on how they are to be run, so production from the land is at a virtual standstill. While the bureaucrats argue, nobody does any planting...
These statistics may prove that Mather really is the most crowded House. However, all they will really show is that anyone can prove anything he wants with statistics. And that is something that any visitor to Bruce Collier's basement lair soon discovers...
...conversation. Finally I had a great anthropological insight. On occasions like this one does not speak. A low grunt of acknowledgement is permissable for those compelled to formality. So deep was my prior cultural conditioning that I never quite got over the strain of keeping silent. The next visitor to my village will no doubt be surprised to be greeted by a hoard of little boys yelling "Ullo." Acculturation works in strange ways...
...agents told one inquiring student that the visitor was the ambassador from Kuwait, and later declined to make any comment to curious onlookers who noticed the agents' ear microphones and ominous postures in front of Eliot House...
During the past few years, under enterprising and dedicated leadership, Asolo has achieved full professional status. Unlike most U.S. regional theaters, Asolo operates on a genuine rotating-repertory basis, and with 94% of its 322 seats sold for the season, the only problem for a Sarasota visitor is how to get in. Some current offerings...