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...financial possibilities of the tourist market in Cambridge was a theme common to several of the candidates. Candidate Robert L. Hall said the city could also look into capitalizing on the "international dignitaries" who often visit Harvard...
...Tyler's fiction had noticeably broadened and deepened; the cast of characters had grown more diverse, and the lives led by her people had assumed unmistakable moral dimensions. Then came the three novels that won her wide and deserved readership -- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985) and the Pulitzer- prizewinning Breathing Lessons (1988) -- in which the seams between the joy and pain, the comedy and tragedy of everyday existence became impossible to distinguish...
Saint Maybe, Tyler's 12th novel, fits neatly and logically into this progression. It draws on the strengths of its predecessors -- e.g., the riotous domesticity of Morgan's Passing and the painful loss at the heart of The Accidental Tourist -- while investigating more thoroughly than Tyler has ever attempted before the sources and aftereffects of religious faith...
Branson, too rocky to grow anything but "kids and tomatoes," has long been a tourist town. It drew its early visitors as the setting of the sentimental 1907 best seller The Shepherd of the Hills, now re-enacted nightly in an amphitheater. Things picked up around 1960 with the opening of Silver Dollar City, a turn-of-the-century theme park, and Table Rock Lake, a fish-rich creation of the Army Corps of Engineers. At about the same time came a country jamboree called the Baldknobbers, named for a legendary vigilante group, and still a top attraction...
...American Games, which began in Havana last week, have instilled a renewed sense of pride, but the headlong rush to develop tourist hotels that are barred to most Cubans has caused resentment. "We were born into socialism, but sometimes we feel we have nothing. We can't eat where tourists eat. We can't drink where tourists drink," says an angry 26-year-old at Havana's La Playita beach. "What would Marx and Engels say to that...