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...headstones," he was seized with a thrilling vision of "a great park, devoid of [the] customary signs of earthly death," where the dead might, in the biographer's prose, have "a beautiful passage to eternal life," a place, said Eaton, "where lovers new and old shall love to stroll and watch the sunset glow...
...Chinese Communists keep Peking's tiny complement of foreign correspondents (about 25) penned up like zoo animals, spoon-feed them a diet of propaganda seldom adulterated by truth. But now and then the tamest specimens, i.e., those with the staunchest Communist records, are led forth for a blinkered stroll around the compound. Last week 19 such journalists returned to Peking after a three-week tour of ravaged Tibet...
...Little World of Laos, Oden Meeker tells of a 17th century Dutch visitor who complained that he could not stroll at night in Laos because of the "horrible fornications" all around. Things have changed very little...
...slacks, sandals, open-throated sports shirt, he may loaf in the garden during nonworking intervals; if it is Sunday, he will stroll to the village pub (The Hoops) for a half-pint of bitter. More often of an afternoon, he will show a visitor about his property, explaining sculptured works in a soft, eager voice almost denuded of its Yorkshire burr, describing with a loving caress along a bronze flank why it takes two or three weeks of rubbing, gouging, sanding and polishing to finish a freshly cast figure: "It's the putting on of skin." In a corner...
...suburb just north of Detroit, epitomizes Yamasaki's ideals of serenity and delight. Aluminum-clad columns lift it above a pond filled with water lilies. Employees will cross the pond on slender concrete ramps on their way to work; in moments of leisure they can sit or stroll beside it beneath the shadowed arcade provided by the overhanging second floor. A glass skylight lined with aluminum ribbing protrudes from the concrete roof, projects a variety of light patterns on the inner court below...