Word: chrysanthemumed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group who are married, it would have been better if someone had given them a gross of prophylactics, locked them in a motel room for two weeks, and let them get it out of their systems." Boys and girls together reject the post-Renaissance notion that passion, like a chrysanthemum, blooms best when vigorously pinched off. Says Sybil Burton Christopher, who married 25-year-old Bandleader Jordan Christopher after Richard Burton left her for Liz Taylor: "They're breaking away from the unrealities of romantic love to get at the core of love...
...grass roots, having seen "with his own eyes at least 15 million Frenchmen" in the past seven years. And besides, great men are sometimes too busy for everyday commingling. "Whoever believed," said General de Gaulle, that General de Gaulle, "once called to the helm, would content himself with inaugurating chrysanthemum shows...
Handel & Champagne. That step-after 14 years of quarrelsome negotiations-took place in Tokyo, where the Foreign Ministers of Japan and South Korea marched into the chrysanthemum-decked ceremonial hall of Prime Minister Eisaku Sato's official residence. There, the beaming officials signed a "normalization" treaty and 26 related documents that make the two nations political and diplomatic equals for the first time in modern history. Then, to the sonorous strains of Handel's Toll for the Brave, Sato and the Foreign Ministers toasted one another in French champagne...
...wide respect for continuing to live in a damp, one-story, concrete air-raid shelter on the palace grounds. "The people are suffering too from lack of housing," he declared. But when the occupation ended in 1952, the seven zealous chief court chamberlains again rang down the Chrysanthemum Curtain between the Emperor and his people. Only rarely was he allowed to leave the palace grounds, to attend a sumo (wrestling) tournament, to plant a tree in Arbor Week...
Toward midnight, a senior Japanese bureaucrat cautiously ventured out into Tokyo's sheltering darkness carrying a chrysanthemum-embossed copy of the revised U.S.-Japanese Security Treaty. He inspected the streets for signs of left-wing demonstrators with all the wariness of an oldtime plainsman watching for hostile Sioux, then headed for the Imperial Palace. There he was admitted inconspicuously, waited as Emperor Hirohito brushed on his signature...