3.I am quite sure that amidst the hustle and bustle of American life, there is a great deal of wistfulness, ofthe divine desire to lie on a plot of grass under tall beautiful trees of an idle afternoon and just do nothing.
4.But afternoon siestas have long been a part of daily life in Greece, where the study took place, as well as in other Mediterranean and some Latin American countries, which tend to have low mortality rates from coronary disease.
5.In mid-afternoon (it was all the same) a curious darkening ofthe sky, and a lull in everything that had made life tick[6]; and then the way the boats suddenly swung the other way at their moorings with the coming of a breeze out ofthe new quarter, and the premonitory rumble[7].
