Word: benisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McHarg grew up near Glasgow, hating the hideous city while exploring the handsome countryside around it. At 16, he decided to spend "a life giving to others the benison which nature gave to me." His model was Lancelot ("Capability") Brown, the 18th century landscape architect who transformed much of England into a showpiece of natural beauty before the onslaught of the Industrial Revolution. As McHarg fondly recalls, Brown was an ecological Faust. Once, on being asked to save Ireland, he grandly replied: "I have not yet finished England...
...little or no rapport with the intellectual community. The President's strained relations with Big Labor's top brass were all too evident at his pilgrimage to Detroit on Labor Day -though there was no lack of rank-and-file palms admiringly outstretched for Johnson's benison along the motorcade route into town...
Died. Irma Rombauer, 83, author of The Joy of Cooking, the brides' benison; of an embolism; in St. Louis (see MODERN LIVING...
...threat to U.S. medicine may well turn out to be vanishing problems. The answer for both could lie in the growth of private prepayment plans, usually combined with group practice. Communities, counties and corporations are hard at work all over the U.S. spreading such plans, and the recent benison of the A.M.A. is certain to allay the objections of many balky doctors. Therein lies the significance of Leonard Larson, a man who can look at all the ferment calmly...
...soothing, almost hypnotic. Behind it sits a sharply dressed, broad-shouldered six-footer, flashing smiles with neon-sign regularity and radiating a homeyness rarely found in homes. When the flow of words is finally finished, he looks straight into the listener's eyes and ends with a benison: "God bless you.'1 The man with the magic voice and manner is neither preacher, politician nor gunslinger-though he needs to be a good deal of each in his business. He is James Martin Moran. 42. the ebullient, aggressive and imaginative owner and president of Chicago's Courtesy...