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Playing opposite Dudgeon, Robert Murch makes a virtuous and likeable Anderson. As Dudgeon less convincingly ascends to martyrdom, Murch, everworldy, acts his own transformation from tranquil pastor to booted man of war in a high comic vein...
...National Park Service estimated that there were 9 million campers and sightseers in their domain, a 25% increase over last year. For some 936,000 college students who will get their bachelor's degrees by the end of June, graduation ceremonies, held against the backdrop of a tranquil nation, suggested more hope (and challenge) than at any time in several years...
...pioneering residents are delighted with their tranquil, crime-free existence but are concerned about the changes that the tramway and a subway connection-planned for 1984 -will bring. Chief Planner Diane Porter, 34, a savvy urbanologist who has worked on the island since 1971, has no such fears. "We are not just renting apartments," she says, "we are renting a whole lifestyle. It's a very small town, and you have to like people to live here. It's not the cold, anonymous place people think New York is." Meaning that no man who lives...
...home region as an example of how the country's religions can live together. In the mountainous Chouf, where in more peaceful times he ruled from the picturesque town of Mukhtara, are Druze villages, Maronite villages and mixed Druze-Maronite villages, all of which still enjoy a relatively tranquil life despite the civil...
...have seen John Updike create a woodlands mythology out of the manicured green of suburbia, an imitation rather than a statement of what it has been like to be alive in America. Rabbit Run, The Centaur, Rabbit Redux are labors of domestic love, and if sometimes Updike resembles that tranquil genre of English novel, it is out of a modesty as to the possibilities of writing, a concern for the world as it is, and a desire to leave it untrammeled by authorial intrusion...