Word: visitores
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...attempt to bolster El Salvador's regime against leftist guerrillas and condemn Nicaragua's revolutionary government for allegedly aiding the insurgents. Any new U.S. offensive branding Nicaragua as a "Marxist aggressor" will meet with little backing after Nicaragua's outspoken support for Argentina. Reports one recent visitor to Nicaragua: "After the first shots were fired in the Falklands, you could almost hear a great sigh of relief coming from Managua...
...fistfuls of truffles into a twelve-quart mixing bowl. Next he starts a pheasant paté, followed by a lobster and crayfish mousse. Tasting each creation in turn, he makes several mid-course corrections, adding a little salt here, a little cream there. Finally he is satisfied. Offering his visitor a taste of the gloriously light mousse, he nods his head gravely. "Nobody," he says, "can make a mousse like I can make a mousse...
...afternoon progresses, the visitor is overwhelmed by a cacophony of sounds and a bouquet of smells. A peek into the larder is enough to tickle even the most jaded palate. Fresh foie gras de canard and turbot flown in from France, mallard ducks and wild morel mushrooms newly arrived from Washington State, plump pheasant and succulent little grouse shot in Scotland, live crayfish shipped up twice a week from New Orleans...
...demeanor of the audience were those of prosperous people, but even in this celebration of achievement there was deep worry, masked by the natural good manners of country folk. They do not like to burden others with personal stress. Yet, when they had the opportunity, they asked a visitor over and over: "Does Washington know how bad it is out here...
What Reeves does very well is throw important ideas, his own and Tocqueville's, into the air. Are American political leaders generally second-raters? So both Tocqueville and Reeves were assured, and so their eyes and ears told them. The French visitor worried about a tyranny of the majority, and the American sees crude sloganized opinions percolating up by means of incessant poll taking to control the nation's political discourse. Tocqueville brooded about the place of blacks in the society. Reeves, in his gloomiest moments, thinks that if violent repression ever does come...