Word: gazes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dark Continent, watching an entire Bronx Zoo on the loose. Tourists can travel 8,500 ft. up Mount Kenya to the bamboo-jungle-surrounded Secret Valley Game Lodge, a two-story building set on tree-trunk stilts, rent a room for $15 a day (including meals) and gaze in perfect safety at leopards that slink out of the night to feed on baited venison beneath a battery of floodlights. In the "other Africa"-to the north-the scenes and the accommodations are considerably different. Algeria has fallen far behind in tourist facilities. But in Morocco, there are hundreds of miles...
Here's one to you from me-; Look with a grateful gaze...
...Tokyo and at the other by Kobe. Within its compass lie Japan's six largest cities and an urban-industrial complex that produces 67% of its manufactured goods-along with most of the problems of identity and adaptation found in today's Japanese society. Under the chill gaze of sacred Mount Fuji, a man-made morass of concrete, steel and glass belches smoke and grime in a manner quite contradictory to the verses of the 8th century poet Akahito Yamabe, who wrote...
...Pieces. A bleak story, surely, and an old one. But Helen Hudson, who cast a cold eye on college professors in an excellent first novel, Tell the Time to No One, has a pitiless yet imaginative gaze. To one of her subjects, Sunday in the city is "a great gap surrounded by walls, emptied of one week and not yet filled with the next." To another, "Christmas is a hateful time; the bunting was pretending to tie up a whole city into one cozy bundle. But the string was too slack. Odd pieces like Meyer kept falling...
...crowds received her message quietly. For them, the important thing was simply to gaze, almost reverently, on Indira. Villages built arches bearing signs of welcome. Crowds stopped her car, presented her with flowers and begged her to speak. Smiling, Indira responded with "Hail India!" in Hindi before her caravan passed on. In the next two weeks, she intends to keep up the pace; she will visit 15 of the country's 17 states...