Word: dandelion
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...Goof, a cowlicky, touching little dandelion seed of a man whom Saroyan characterized as "the naive white hope of the human race," wanted to change the world. He was thwarted wherever he went by an Easter-Parade cutaway-dummy representing conformity, and a deadpan gal named Destiny. He tried to change the world with love (represented by Minsky models in black lace panties), poetry, music, facts and statistics, common labor. He pleaded with all sorts-a dope-fiend radical, a religious drunkard, a doting old man with a beard and a penchant for poetry, followed by a girl representing...
...quiet before dawn last week, a band of 400 dandelion-eating, political-minded peasants struck at the two-year rule of Greek Dictator General John Metaxas. They marched into the stony streets of Canea, ancient seaport and capital of Crete. At their head stepped former Minister of National Economy in the Athens Government, young Aristomenis Mitsotakis, nephew of Venizelos, and ex-Mayor Mountakis of Canea...
Like new games and Labor troubles, new magazines, particularly pocket-sized ones, have sprouted like dandelions across the green fields of the nation's economic recovery.* So far new games and the Labor troubles seem likely to outlast most of the magazines. Last week three more pocket-sized periodicals, all monthlies, all 25?, all without advertising, were in evidence. First to dandelion onto U. S. newsstands was They Say, a yellow-jacketed, staff-written journal of opinion featuring "the views ... of the audience rather than the orator, of the pews rather than the pulpit." Publisher Herbert Hungerford, 62, onetime...
ATHEN-OLYMPIA--Have you ever seen a dream walking? Have you ever eaten dandelion greens? You have a treat in store? Call JOHN...
...Secret Snow," Mr. Aiken gives a picture of an adolescent mind dwelling more and more in the realm of fantasy until the real world is finally obliterated. "Thistledown" is a very simply told story of a girl whose life is as "aimless and purposeless as the voyage of the dandelion thistle...