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...luxurious to primitive. Passengers, food and the scenery change each day in slow, unwinding diversity. "Looking out a train window in Asia," Theroux writes, "is like watching an unedited travelogue without the obnoxious sound track." Yet his own sound track is anything but that. Perhaps not since Mark 3 Twain's Following the Equator (1897) ° have a wanderer's leisurely impressions 3 been hammered into such wry, incisive ° mots. Venice sits on its industrialized gulf "like a drawing room in a gas station"; small villages in Malaysia roll by: "Bidor, Trolak, Tapah and Klang - names like...
Miniature Golf, inexplicably referred to as "putt-putt" by southerners, is a summer evening's ecstasy. Unlike regular fairway golf, which Mark Twain called "a long walk spoiled," miniature golf is a short stroll enhanced. The most enhancing stroll enhanced. The most enhancing spot around for this activity lies on Route 9 in Natick, the west-of-Boston's answer to Route 1, which is the local habitual of a strange breed of the populace known as the Highway People. The Highway People never leave the freeway: they live in trailer parks, and move on when the spirit moves them...
...Philadelphia group can be considered atypical at all it would have to be in its relation to President Bok. In Philadelphia, where Mark Twain once said they ask you first who your parents are, Bok comes with the finest credentials. Both Bok and Curtis, his middle name, are synonymous with Philadelphia high society in everything from publishing (Curtis Publishing) to music (Curtis Institute) to art patronage. "Everybody knows he had his roots here," Hecksher says. And when Bok spoke in Philadelphia several years ago, Philadelphia's. Hecksher recalls, "welcomed him with open arms," with a turnout of more than...
...Kanfer calls Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee the "only literary work" in which the bicycle's glory is sung [April 9]. Albert Schweitzer, born just 100 years ago, was eight or nine when the rumor spread in his Alsatian village that a "speed-runner" was at the village inn. Schweitzer says in his charming childhood memoirs: "Today's young people can't imagine what the coming of the bicycle meant to us. A hitherto undreamed of possibility of getting into nature was opened before us, and I made full and joyous...
...fact, the fun in the sun ended rather abruptly, as the visitors showered second-half goaltender Michelson with a three-goal scoring burst in the first two and one half minutes of play, to gain a 9-8 lead. But before you could quote Mark twain's analysis of New England weather--"If you don't like it, want a few minutes"--the Williams attack fell victim to a severe drought and the Crimson stormed back. "We finally broke out of the doldrums in the fourth quarter and poured it on," coach Bob Scalese said...