Word: trips
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Some of the tourists are here with a more serious mission: they are teenagers with their parents on the ritual trip to visit colleges. Yesterday they stopped at Wesleyan and Yale; tomorrow, there are interviews scheduled at Amherst and Williams. The parents always look nervous; the kids either look nervous or bored...
Jewish groups, at least, have been muted in their response thus far, and are unlikely to mount large protests during the remainder of Mandela's trip. That will remove one potential complication from the hastily arranged tour. It was only on May 11 that 70 supporters of the antiapartheid movement, including activists, politicians, labor leaders and business people, convened in Washington to discuss arrangements. That led to the formation of an organizing committee headed by Randall Robinson, executive director of the antiapartheid group TransAfrica; Lindiwe Mabuza, chief representative of the A.N.C. in the U.S.; and the singer Harry Belafonte. Long...
...measure Mandela's trip was a success before he ever set out. "This is the consolidation of the political credibility of the A.N.C.," declares the Rev. William Howard, past president of the National Council of Churches and a 20-year veteran of the antiapartheid fight in the U.S. "Four or five years ago, the very top leadership couldn't even get a meeting with the person on the Africa desk at the State Department. Now the President has invited Mandela to the White House, and everybody wants to meet with...
Once the last American trip-wire battalion is gone, Germany will feel liberated in some respects but vulnerable in others. Then what? Will the government in Bonn -- or perhaps by then Berlin -- ask for help from Britain and France, which have their own independent nuclear deterrents? German pride would make that expedient unattractive...
WYNTON MARSALIS: THE RESOLUTION OF ROMANCE (Columbia). How long can Wynton Marsalis keep getting better? His latest trip to the studio, this time accompanied by his father Ellis on piano, has produced what may be Wynton's best recording to date. His breathy lyricism on such standards as Where or When, The Very Thought of You, and I Cover the Waterfront will surprise those who dismiss the young man from New Orleans as a dazzling but cold technician...