Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entrance to the Church of the Reconcilia tion, which faces on West Berlin, was bricked up. Apartments fronting on the border have been bricked and boarded up on the first floors, and their tenants relocated. The upper floors still offer an uncertain access to freedom. On the side walk of No. 48 Bernauerstrasse, a wreath and tin can of flowers mark the place where a woman leaped to her death trying to escape. But last week a young student knocked on the door of a second-floor apartment on Luckauerstrasse. When it was opened, he raced through it, leaped safely...
...were gone, and, in response to a great, government-sponsored publicity campaign, masses of tourists arrived (15,000 so far this year). Ustica has few entertainments to offer them-not even movies-but it has fish-rich waters, deep blue grottoes to plumb, and long stretches of land to walk. Thoroughly pleased with the setting, the week-long International Underwater Convention stayed submerged long enough to let 24 spearsmen from seven countries compete for the underwater fishing prize, surfaced to present its annual "Golden Trident" awards to such notables as Dr. Jacques Piccard (for his underwater research) and to Sophia...
...fear. As one refugee put it: "The police no longer drag people out of their houses in the middle of the night. But the agents are still everywhere. You sit in a movie house watching a film, and suddenly the lights go on and you wait while the Vopos walk down the aisle looking everyone over. You wonder who they are after. When they motion to someone to get up and go with them, you relax. But the next time it could be you ... I couldn't take that any more...
...department was around that early. I said. 'Why are you policing yourself with this dead-brain text?' I replaced it with the straight Duskin line." But, dumped for having no doctorate. Duskin crept back to Stanford to earn one. He never made it: "You should walk around Stanford some time-it's a tough scene. All these beautiful people with nothing faces. So I quit and came down here to start a college...
Charlie Chaplin once explained: "When I walk right up and slap a grand lady because she gave me a contemptuous look, it is really right. -They won't admit it, but it's right, and that is why they laugh. I make them conscious of the reality of life. 'You think this is it, don't you?' I say. 'Well, it isn't, but this is-see?' And then they laugh...