Word: blossoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mandala,** a square and-wheel pattern embodying the number four or a multiple of it. A precious stone, often equated with the philosopher's stone of the alchemists, can symbolize the Self. The interlaced, banyanlike Tree of Life is often seen to bear a single luminous blossom-perhaps the Orient's Golden Flower, or a Christmas-tree star-which signifies the way of life that is life itself...
...California in 1951, Brubeck's newly formed quartet found itself in an area bursting into musical blossom. About that time, Progressive Bandleader Stan Kenton passed through Los Angeles, and some of his crew, e.g., Trumpeter Shorty Rogers, Arranger Pete Rugolo, Drummer Shelly Manne, French Hornist John Graas, settled there and became famous. A hollow-eyed trumpeter named Chet Baker and an underweight baritone saxophonist named Gerry Mulligan made themselves fast killings among the cats. By 1952, the West Coast was the U.S.'s newest, biggest stomping ground for jazz. Brubeck felt right at home, shuttled between such clubs...
...Forgive Me." As more than a week passed without an arrest, press and politicians of the right wing cried for action and implied that Mendès-France and his ministers were powerless or afraid to act. If the Dides affaire was not to blossom into a full-scale threat to the regime's existence, Mitterrand and his police needed more-facts and arrests. One morning last week, the police rocked the country with two arrests. Jailed as the men who leaked from the Defense Committee were René Turpin, 42, and Roger Labrusse, 40, both ardent leftists...
Once listed officially as a deb, the new blossom has only to sit back and wait for the invitations to pour in. During a mad period of flowering that lasts for three months, her mornings are spent in beauty sleep, her afternoons and evenings at a never-ending round of teas, dinners and balls, her nights at nightclubs. A shrewd father can cut the upkeep for the season down to as low as ?1,000, but many a deb runs up the tabs to well over...
...balmy day last week in blossom-perfumed, crescent-beached Rio, Inspector Carlos Santos of the police department's costume and amusement section called in the press. Ordered from on high to crack down on public lovemaking, the inspector outlined the new rules for kissing in the carnival capital of the world: "The pure kiss, what we call the official kiss, on the cheek or hand, will be permitted. But so-called 'American' kissing, which awakens other intentions and is shocking in public, will be suppressed...