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...real ball. They like it. and it sure beats going home to do the dishes." The Bronco, another Dallas bowling alley, features two restaurants, a four-chair barbershop, beauty shop and dance band, and is diversifying to attract nonbowlers by installing pool tables, table tennis and miniature golf. Eastgate Colosseum near Cleveland has a swimming pool. 18 billiard tables, indoor miniature golf and pingpong, and handles weddings and bar mitzvahs as well...
...Forest Path to the Spring, is masterly-a vibrant nature idyl that is in a direct spiritual descent from Thoreau's Walden. But the bulk of the book displays an occupational disease of 20th century writers : writing about writing and the writer's lot. In Elephant and Colosseum, Lowry tries the bulky device of symbolizing his work as an elephant, presumably patient, massive, mnemonic, with a final trumpeting of glory. In Strange Comfort Afforded by the Profession, he links his premonitions of death and damnation with the fates of Keats, Poe and Kafka...
...conventioneers a variety of pleasures, its convention facilities have grown woefully inadequate over the years. Last week the city solved that problem with the opening of a brand-new hall, the $35 million lakefront McCormick Place, "larger than the Circus Maximus of ancient Rome and more durable than the Colosseum...
Rome, the city of grandiose ruins, was "erected by parvenus," new-rich "imperial lunatics" with no hint of classical restraint: "Whatever is classical is subtly proportioned. The proportions of a building such as the Colosseum are as subtle as those of a Greenland whale." As for the Renaissance, Rome and the Italians were impervious to it, says Menen, until the Arabians sparked "the rebirth of learning" by rediscovering mathematics and the great Greek texts. Italy's Renaissance princes kept scholars as show-off status symbols ("The scholars cost more than a dog, but not always more than a horse...
...last week flocked to see their baseball Giants open the National League season against the St. Louis Cardinals-and to help open their last-word, $15 million Candlestick Park. There has been nothing quite like it since the Romans, who had to struggle along by chariot, converged on the Colosseum...