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...indefatigable sightseer, the Primate toured the Garden of Gethsemane, where he plucked an olive branch from a tree alleged to have been planted before the birth of Christ, and viewed the Dead Sea Scrolls. Near the town of Nablus, Dr. Fisher, fortified with a strong dose of stomach salts, drank freely from Jacob's Well. (The archbishop, said his staff, was holding up well under the rigors of the Middle Eastern diet.) He looked at the ruins where Salome danced, saw the site where John the Baptist was beheaded. At the River Jordan, the archbishop refused to be totally...
...Passionate Sightseer, though a slim volume, gives us sharp insight into all these aspects of this fascinating wit, scholar and sightseer. To make all his visual reference perfectly clear, the publishers have included extensive photographs of the master-works and places discussed...
...Passionate Sightseer, B.B., who came from a Lithuanian rabbinical family, again refers to this philosophy, interestingly enough once again in reference to a work of Christian religious art. This time, he says of the churches of Rome, "People cannot move around in these churches without its influencing their outlook on the universe and without furnishing them with standards and values...
Because The Passionate Sightseer offers so clear an image of Berenson's personality, one finds it hard not to fall under his spell. His way of life immediately communicates itself as a particularly rewarding one. His approach to life, his careful cultivation of the good and the beautiful (especially the beautiful) becomes intensely attractive...
...folks: "The new generation is better acquainted with Jayne Mansfield's statistics than they are with the Seventh Commandment . . . Slow down! Sex is a great thing-so long as it is not misused." Then, after he sipped tea with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace, Sightseer Graham was at last pinned down by an insistent reporter just as he was boarding a plane for Moscow. What "embarrassed" the Grahams: "We saw two couples in the midst of the sex act in daylight...