Word: visitores
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...effort to make the visitor feel at home, A. Lawrence Lowell, then president of the University, lodged him with a White Russian who was lecturing in the Law School. This hospitality did not particularly warm the heart of the bell-ringer, who had been warned by the Soviet Government to have nothing to do with White Russians...
...Petits Freres (both priests and lay brothers bear the same title) and 480 Petites Soeurs in groups of twos and threes in the poorest sections of wherever they happen to be. One room is always consecrated as a chapel, and an extra bed is reserved for a homeless visitor. Their uniform is the dress of the poor with a brown cross pinned to it. Their work is the most menial labor available to support them...
...beginning to shake Soviet painters as well as the commissars. Instead of the models of heroic realism, which Russian painters have been forced for decades to turn out with machinelike standardization, Soviet painters have started shyly showing each other paintings they have kept carefully hidden away. Reported one recent visitor to Moscow: "Remarkably like Cézanne...
Paris hotel now costs from $7 to $12. France's famed food is a bargain: Michelin's Guide lists 2,000 restaurants that will serve a meal for a maximum $1.70 (tip included). In Paris, the visitor can take a $13 nightclub prowl that includes a dive billed imaginatively as "the center of the former underworld," where everything is faked but the check. The Crazy Horse Saloon has a floorshow featuring cowboys, Indians and cowgirl stripteasers...
...pornography for his Yorkshire home that he called the place Aphrodisiopolis. Queen Victoria's favorite poet and laureate, Tennyson himself, enjoyed rude limericks-those five-line exercises in lubricity that still enjoy a large oral circulation. Algernon Swinburne had a great taste for erotica ("Shall I tell our visitor about the man of Peru?"). Whistler's saucy Finette, who introduced the cancan to England, was clearly not his mother. The Queen herself comes out of Pearl's researches unscathed (save for a regal tendency, noted by Gladstone, to spike her claret with whisky). But Edward...