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Initially, the six woman chorus seemed musically uncoordinated. The chorus's military maneuvers of the middle acts seemed little removed from bumps and grinds. (Fortunately, no one in the audience seemed to notice that in his ecstasy over the organ music, the Sultan was dancing the stroll...
...have all the earmarks of slums but paradoxically have great vitality. In Boston's North End district, for example, rents are low, the blocks are small but densely populated, and small shops prosper. Streets and sidewalks sparkle with activity; everybody knows everybody else, and outsiders like to stroll there. And in the face of all the city planners' tenets, North End has the lowest delinquency, disease and infant mortality rates in the city. Yet planners keep talking of the need to "redevelop" North End, and bankers almost always refuse to lend money there for local construction. Why? Explains...
...midst of all this stolidity, two seedy musician-pimps (former companions of Rosemary) stroll along the streets improvising songs that comment on the story as it progresses. They add the only touch of fluidity to a stilted manikin act. And their songs are fine street ballads...
...play the violin.' John Quincy Adams, after being summarily dismissed by the Massachusetts legislature from the United States Senate for supporting Thomas Jefferson, then became Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, and then became a great Secretary of State. And Senator Daniel Webster could stroll down the corridors of the Congress a few steps after making some of the greatest speeches in the history of this country and dominate the Supreme Court as the foremost lawyer...
...ruts; bright new fire engines race over dirt tracks to put out a fire in a village of mud and palm-thatch houses; a group of white-shirted intellectuals talking on a street corner at night are badgered for a cigarette by a man dressed up for an evening stroll in a top hat, blue-striped pajama bottoms, and a pair of torn, cutaway tails that he has found somewhere. And on the northwestern plains, Masai warriors swoop down on a village and take the cattle, intent on reacquiring the earth's bovine population, which their religion teaches them belongs...