Word: wanderlied
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...place is human now for a while at least, clearly Jimmy Carter's home. Anyone with the time to wander the county, to wait for the strong old rhythms of its life to sound their bass beneath the cashbox jingle, will see how the place has added to the man large measures of its own calm, its silent demonstration (at field's edge, in shacks, on more fortunate porches) of the few but urgent needs of human continuance, of-more urgent still -the needs of the earth. You may even come away with something like my own sense...
...Duke, a Prospero-like character who stage-manages much of the plot, takes a good look around his city and decides it needs a house-cleaning. But he's too good-hearted to enforce the stringent laws himself, so he abdicates in favor of his deputy Angelo, leaving to wander the country as a monk...
...said of this book--it satisfies in a way that few of Updike's recent works, though so precisely tooled, can manage. By taking on the wide spaces, forgetting the parking lots and PTAs and roadside motel rooms, he opens up new canyons where his imagination can wander, and reflect...
...limits exist, Fairbank noted, and even if tourism grows immensely Americans still will not be able to wander about the Chinese countryside, because of lack of facilities as well as language difficulties...
...sure, China has its imposing factories and impressive, lush communes to show off to visitors. But to wander into small urban streets or tiny rural villages is to discover what may come closest to the real China. It is a country with a long...