Word: blossoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court as to whether force and violence will prevail ... In some places school integration will take time, longer time than in others . . . But you must have a start." Throughout, the chamber sat quiet, the justices immobile, Thurgood Marshall with a slight scowl. Little Rock's Superintendent Virgil Blossom and Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright (on hand as a friend of the court to ask for more time in Little Rock) staring somberly ahead. Lee Rankin continued: "I am confident that as the years go by, the people of the South will realize that they have a stake...
Surly Refusal. After the deserts blossom again. President Eisenhower said, the world might see an "Arab renaissance," with modern Arab nations making contributions to civilization surpassing the Islamic advances in mathematics, astronomy and medicine during Europe's Middle Ages. Throughout his speech, the President took Arab feeling into account, tried to avoid giving any impression that the U.S. was seeking to dictate to the Arab world. He stressed that the U.S. did not want "a position of leadership" in the regional economic program, that "the goals must be Arab goals," and that Arab peoples "clearly possess the right...
...support for the idea of an inter-American development bank caused hopeful smiles to blossom in every Latin American capital last week. Even more hopeful were signs in some" of the hemisphere's key countries that free-handed spending might be replaced with tight budgeting, that careless deficits would give way to more careful planning. The results promised to solve many of the new bank's problems before they become problems-and even before there is a bank...
...boudoir athletics that no true Frenchman would take seriously, he never gets his girl. The trouble is, he cannot concentrate. He can never quite get his mind off Vashni, an old sweetheart with the heat of youthful summers "always close about her, like an extra fragrance, that of a blossom crisping in the sun, which the kiss found under the heavy gold anklets that polished the skin, and behind her knees . . ." Most important of all, for almost 20 hours a day, seven days a week, he is busy catering to an oddball group of well-heeled vagrants -perverted dress designers...
...these squalid though sometimes cruelly moving episodes, Yozo emerges with a stoic creed-"Everything passes." Almost alone among recent Japanese literary imports, No Longer Human is strikingly free of cherry-blossom reveries and puzzling Oriental character motivations. If the author's identity were unknown, this novel might easily be taken for the work of a U.S. Southern decadent who had lingered long at the café tables of the French existentialists...