Word: visitores
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...study in seams and his hands were encrusted with years of grit. He wore a green plaid coat, bib overalls tucked into high rubber boots and a John Deere cap. He was immediately suspicious, but loosened up when the sheriff told him, with a perfectly straight face, that the visitor was a distant relative from Chicago...
...when current Harvard Square Arts Festival coordinator Kristen Wainwright appeared on the scene--"a godsend," Bruce calls her--to help organize the community side of the Festival. With the experience of coordinating the 1971 Great Boston Kite Festival and serving as assistant director of the Children's Museum Visitor Center last year, Kristen is cut out for her present crusade...
...another real glass to replace the plastic--in exchange for an interview. He agreed, but, once supplied, demurred, and we were only partly consoled by his offer to shake our hand, Others, much more interested in his conversation than in interviews, seemed altogether delighted by his presence. One cheery visitor who has called for drink repeatedly during the lecture did penance at the party by keeping the Guest's glass filled...
...core of the communication problem is contained in three preliminary sentences that the phrasebook recommends to Russian tourists: "I don't know English. I know no other language except my native tongue. The study of foreign languages is greatly developed in our country." On his arrival, the Soviet visitor may be asked how he enjoyed his Aeroflot flight to the U.S. If so, he can be expected to reply: "Flying in the TU-114, I felt myself excellently." After his long journey, he clearly requires strong drink and a hearty meal. A profound cultural misunderstanding may be provoked, though...
...scene. The Yankee Doddle Thing, a sort of Rosemary's baby with green fur, is sired in the midst of a drug-induced orgy. A lesson about the evils of dope? Alas, no; the father turns out to be not an acid-distorted human but a sex-starved extraterrestrial visitor who finds his son quite beautiful. And in this future, just incidentally, there are student riots practically every day, and all people over thirty--termed "duffies"--have been relegated to political limbo...