...Reinhard H. Luthin Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 A VISITOR FROM HUNGARY REINHARD H. LUTHIN IN THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY, groups of Ameriicans insisted that the United States as the world s great democracy should aid the struggling liberals of Europe in deposing royal despots...

...Conrad Joyner Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 SOUTH ATLANTIC AUSTRALIA: IMPRESSIONS OF A VISITOR Conrad Joyner HE CHOICE of Australia as the site for the Olympic games was the signal for a great outpouring of articles in the popular press about Australia and its people...

... sector, highlighting the adoption of local norms and traditions. For decades, thousands of casas particulares have hosted exchanges between visitors and the local population. Based on ethnographic data collected in Havana, we contend that the “Airbnb model” was present before the gig economy giant...

... with an impoverished zoo on the brink ofclosing its doors. The zoo s loss ofpublic funding is the occasion for corporate salvation. The transformed and newly profitable zoo greets its visitors with jingoistic commercial messages at every enclosure as the wild animals become advertising gimmicks. Finally, every animal...

... programmed. On the Jungle Cruise khaki-clad tour guides teasingly engage the visitors with their banter, whose apparent spontaneity has been carefully scripted and painstakingly rehearsed. Nothing is left to the imagination or the unforeseen. Even Public Use/Private State 123 the paths and walkways...

... devoted to the study and re-creation of America s colonial era, with approximately one million visitors each year. Since the Governor s Palace is the focal point of the town s restoration and inter­ pretation, museum officials concluded that it was the logical place to intro­ duce a new social history...

... Bishop, as a woman poet, establishing her own voice and point of view not so much in opposition to, but more in alternation with, a major male poetic voice and his characteristic form. Basically, the situation in Faustina is simple. The poem has three characters: a white woman, a visitor, and Faustina...

.... Nevertheless, what is truly dis­ tinctive about Disney is its development of a stationary device for attracting visitors: the theme park. Today, that device holds out the possibility for totally altering the concepts of planning. I am an architect based in Tokyo, but I recently designed and com­ pleted...

... high and so thick that it seems to close in around the trails, hushing all sounds except for the birdcalls which are everywhere, and the rustling of palmetto fronds. It is strangely moving, this still forest with its chorus of twitters and whistles in the background. A visitor is introduced...

...Charles G. Hoffman Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 Joyce Cary s African Novels: "There s a War On Charles G. Hoffmann Joyce Cary s African novels Aissa Saved (1932), An American Visitor (1933), The African Witch (1936), and Mister Johnson (1939) are often linked together...

.... Ellison • The Spoiler’s Art 91 Libeskind’s Jewish Museum Approached from the Lindenstrasse, Libeskind’s building is fragmentary in outline and plan. Clad with zinc and intersected with narrow diagonal windows, the walls appear both defensive and torn. After clearing security, visitors descend...

...Fred Harvey Harrington Copyright © 1939 by Duke University Press 1939 A ROYAL TOUR OF 1860 FRED HARVEY HARRINGTON ON AN INDIAN summer day in i860, a group of Englishmen and Americans paid a trip of homage to Washington s grave. Uncovering as they neared this national shrine, the visitors...

... of impossible ideal back to the visitor an ideal that one may never have had but in which one is invited to be­ lieve. As with opinion polls, this process short-circuits any possibility for imaginative thinking, since one becomes involved in the process of believing in one of the choices while at the same time...

..., unknown to them, finds his in the Greek. The figure of Singer is central. Yet in the opening sections of the novel, before Singer meets his four visitors, the reader sees him in a position of dependence upon Antonapoulas, with whom he shares a small apartment. When the two walk, The one who steered...

... by a Con­ gressional appropriation, is carried into effect with an efficiency and friendliness that inspire the foreign visitor from the first moment with confidence and a homelike feeling. A very pleasant feature of this cultural program is the fact that the visitor is not required to give anything...

... in the mind s eye of our ancestors. Though it has now faded, no one need reproach Turkey for putting on a Western face; glamor has, of necessity, yielded to modernity. Yet those qualities which for centuries appealed to visitors still remain Turkish hospitality, courtesy, courage, patience, and integrity...

... ing to be serenely greeted by Allan Gilbert, who had just run up them two at a time. If he was amazed at the breathlessness of these visitors to his learned eyrie, he disguised his astonishment with a jovial welcome. There was also the clear fact that fatigue, either physical or mental, was unknown...

... Paulo). Three major waves of violence orchestrated by the PCC received widespread publicity. In February 2001, simultaneous rebellions were coordinated by cell phones in twenty-nine prisons in São Paulo state dur- ing which thousands of visitors were held hostage. The rebellions were...

... the quaintness of house and street which de­ 316 The South Atlantic Quarterly lights the senses in Nuremberg; it possesses almost no imposing public buildings or striking monuments such as one meets on every hand in Munich; it lacks the trimness, size, and modern­ ity of Berlin. The untutored visitor, who walks...

..., to be suc­ cessful that is, for a trip there to be fun the park s visitors must perform complex ideological maneuvers which allow them to see themselves in the representations of American life offered there and, from that, to find them entertaining or, in Disney s words, instruc­ tive. As this is neither...