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...when connoisseurs would spend hours before a painting "trying to find the owl in the woods." Bruegel packed his canvases with scenes of birds on the wing, half-hidden bird snares, distant village-green ballplayers, to give his viewers all the delights and surprises of a country stroll. To get his rustic costumes, characters and gestures just right, Bruegel liked to dress in peasant's garb, attended the village festivals, probably danced and drank at the very weddings and country dances he later put down on canvas...
...songs the trade calls "grass-skirt numbers," to a haunted, spine-crawling ditty titled If You Peek in My Gazebo, which tells the tale of a mad New England spinster who sits each evening in a summerhouse on the hill secretly watching the lusty young village bucks stroll...
...children in Puerto Rico, returned to the U.S. temporarily for a weapons refresher-training course. At the end of the course he got leave, proceeded to put into action a plan that would wipe clean all his debts. French went to Washington, on April 5 took a late-evening stroll past the sand brick Russian Embassy on 16th Street. At the embassy he paused, tossed through the fence a letter addressed "To Whom It May Concern." For $27,500, said the letter, "I believe I can furnish you with valuable military information." The information French volunteered to hand over: documents...
...short stroll from the gutted hulk of Berlin's old Reichstag one blustery day last week, a young German girl stepped resolutely forward, smashed a bottle of German wine against a brand-new building set on the banks of the River Spree, proclaimed in a clear voice. "I christen you the Congress Hall in memory of Benjamin Franklin." Thus was opened Berlin's newest and most venturesome building, a joint project of the U.S., the West German government and the city of Berlin. Designed as a cultural center where plays, music, debates and symposiums will be held...
...program that soon had 300 men and women delving into the great philosophers. With World War II this project, too, melted away, and Alexander Meiklejohn finally retired to his modest house in Berkeley ("a professor's house, you know") to study, play an occasional game of tennis and stroll about the hills. But he had had his effect on U.S. education-in the great-books seminars that sprang up, in the whole effort to cut across academic fields and search for the unity of knowledge, in the trend toward giving college students more independence and in the new interest...