Word: blossomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wherever water wells up in the vast, arid reaches of northeastern Iran, improbable pockets of green blossom in the hostile landscape. People gather in isolated hamlets and towns to scratch out their precarious, remote existence. One such town was Kakhk, a cluster of blue-plastered, mud-brick buildings where 7,000 Iranians lived. At 2:17 on a sunny Saturday afternoon, Kakhk ceased to exist. In a few swift moments, it became the victim of Iran's worst earthquake since 1962, when 12,000 people perished. "I was taking a stroll in front of my house, when the ground...
...Intimacy of the Blues, which perfectly brings out its elegant, insinuating sound; Charpoy, a perking bounce; and Blood Count, a sinuous, sensitive ballad, with a Johnny Hodges alto solo, in the same vein as Passion Flower. Duke pays his respects with a pensive, if plush, rendition of Lotus Blossom, Strayhorn's own favorite...
...BLOSSOM MUSIC CENTER, twelve miles north of Akron, is where the Cleveland Orchestra makes its new $6,500,000 summer home. Situated on a wooded bluff overlooking the Cuyahoga River, the 4,600-seat festival pavilion opens July 19 with Beethoven's The Consecration of the House Overture and Ninth Symphony led by Music Director George Szell. Guest Conductors William Steinberg, Charles Munch and Karel Ançerl, Pianists Van Cliburn, Byron Janis and Vladimir Ashkenazy, and Tenor Jon Vickers will appear at the weekly Friday-Saturday-Sunday concerts. Other highlights: performances by the New York City Ballet...
...Rose Garden, he hailed her as "someone who has helped us with the gold drain." Peggy had, indeed, as the only American to bring home an Olympic gold medal from Grenoble. And now a properly appreciative L.B.J. added a decoration of his own, reaching up to pluck a magnolia blossom from a tree and pinning it on Peggy's dress...
...resisters. In addition, a broad-based group would attract many students who shy away from anti-war and anti-draft organizations. These are the students who must be mobilized and counted in the ranks of the anti-war movement, if it is to break with its parochial tradition and blossom into a national coalition with political influence. Finally, the potential of the larger group is obviously greater than that of the more selective Union...