Word: blossoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still active. He went West, like the nation, and saw the Rockies. Their grandeur reminded him of his own poetry. But he was aging. He began to say he had never read Emerson before he wrote Leaves of Grass (he had), to be a little cadgy about money, to blossom a little senilely at his few remaining birthday parties, to welcome the less fantastic of his admirers. They were not the common workmen he had written for, but those poets and cultivated hangers-on who are the fate of poets in general. He kept adding to Leaves oj Grass...
...that the future of the American Theatre lies far from New York. As shown by the great interest in the small community players' club across the country, people are eager to see more of the legitimate theatre. The answer to their hunger is not a number two company of "Blossom Time," travelling up and down the country till the blossoms fade. Broadway professes to satisfy the "road" in this manner; but a worn-out road company of Shubert actors is not the solution...
...Washington, President Roosevelt could see spring right outside his office. Near his window a white jasmine shrub was beginning to blossom; pansies popped their bright faces around the brooding State Department rookery. The cherry trees budded around the Tidal Basin-except for the four sawed down in December by overzealous patriots. At noon and night, Washington's parks, where the iris grew almost fast enough to be watched, were filled with lonesome boys & girls from small towns, who wondered how the spring looked back home...
...schizophrenic. When George meets Netta, a beauty who has the torpid heartlessness of a late Roman Emperor, he collapses into a state of slavery which is emotionally uninhabitable. When Netta and her friends persecute George, just for the fun of it, his "spells," once mere vacant withdrawals from life, blossom into aggressive daydreams of murder...
...Roach made Stevens a director (of shorts) in 1929. The 25-year-old cameraman was more than ready. An incident at Universal studios had revealed his true ambitions. The studio sent him upcountry to take some fast-action cattle shots for a Western. It was apple-blossom time and -to a man with an itch to direct-irresistible. When the studio ran the film, it was charmingly interspersed with tender shots of dropping apple blossoms. They almost...