Word: pilgrimate
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...fountain that tumbles from a corner of Boston's Siena-like City Hall Plaza, where secretaries and bureaucrats now take their brown-bag lunches. Perhaps, like Robert Frost's pilgrim in Directive ("Back out of all this now too much for us"), the city folk find in their new fountains something of that hidden spring, where they can "drink and be whole again beyond confusion...
...hand-tinted legend has displaced the coruscating verse-a fault, says this terse, canny biography, of the poet himself. According to Alex de Jonge, a Fellow and Tutor of New College, Oxford, Les Fleurs du Mai is "Pilgrim 's Progress in reverse," and so was Baudelaire's life...
Mike Kinsley's a pilgrim to eretz Peretz...
...basic approach is a soup-to-nuts chronology, including chapters on restaurants, drinking habits and "The Great American Sweet Tooth." Sweetness, the authors argue, is a dominant flavor on the national palate, partly traceable to England where treacle tarts are frequently washed down with heavily sugared tea. The Pilgrim forebears sat down to Thanksgiving dinners that were liberally drenched in maple syrup...
Another friendly pilgrim to Plains, California Governor Jerry Brown, told reporters that the man he had beaten in several primaries can not only carry California but "can carry any state in the nation." Do Carter and Brown like each other? Observed Brown: "Well, I don't know ... I try to work with everybody, and as far as I know, I think Carter is a good person. I like him and want...