Word: bouquets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uncritically generous-at birth, any little quarterly could count on a blurb and a bouquet of free poems as a present from him. He had no vanity, no avarice, no conceit, but he had strong and angry flashes of pride that described him perfectly in his poet's pose...
...stated that he is married to a girl named Ethyl. He is the only U.S. sportswriter who, after checking into a room with a colleague in a Tampa hotel, got flowers from the management. "For Miss Shirley Povich and Mr. Robert Considine," read the note that came with the bouquet. ("I don't know what to say about the morals of that hotel.'' says Roommate Considine...
...Queen. Elizabeth, looking cool as ever in the 105° simmer, responded by quaffing a bowl of kava, the muddy national beverage made of mashed roots. Then, before boarding the royal yacht Britannia for the cruise on to New Zealand and Australia, she bowed to accept the traditional bouquet from one of her barefoot subjects, while others on a nearby British liner clicked away souvenir photos of their fellow South Seas tourist...
Little Flowers. The scent of youthful bitterness suffuses the sarcastic prose bouquet with which Willingham opens the novel: "In this peaceful land . . . the summer sun is a fiery furnace; it boils the blood, cooks the brain, and spreads a fever in the bones. But that same fearful orb, in collaboration with the sweet rain generated by its power, makes the little flowers grow...
Richter was so exhausted for his final concert that he talked of canceling out, then appeared to play a brutal program of Hindemith's First Sonata, five Shostakovich preludes and fugues, Prokofiev's Sixth Sonata and, for encores, a bouquet of Prokofiev Visions Fugitives. Had his playing improved? Though the atmosphere that surrounded him could not help but candy the reviews, Paris could only say: "Such taste, such wonderful music, such flair...