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...years ago. My education was in marketing. I worked in nurseries in high school and college, but I didn't think there was any money in it. That has changed. Nurseries are no longer just horticultural outlets. We have a patio shop, a Christmas shop, a florist, crafts, a do-it-yourself shop. This generation now, such better buyers! We have a diagnostic service with two horticulturists, a do-it-yourself design shop. After the war and Victory gardens, horticulture died, as far as I'm concerned. Then the back-to- the-landers brought vegetable gardening back in the 1960s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Philadelphia: A Flower Show | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...philosophy, the pragmatic, linguistic and analytical directions taken in the early part of our century are being replaced by the old-fashioned philosophical questions of how to live. Universities that only 15 years ago were promoting a do-it-yourself education for undergraduates are lunging back to the basic, orderly curriculums of the past. In art and architecture too, one begins to feel a resistance to the antihuman cant of modernism. It is not quite so chic to be modern anymore, not a necessary declaration of one's moral and aesthetic worth. We ride on a supersonic vehicle from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Time Capsule: A Letter to the Year 2086 | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

There are also those students who prefer the party scene commonly found at large state universities with thriving fraternity and sorority systems. These students readily complain about the infrequency and dullness of parties on campus. Still, others enjoy the laid-back atmosphere and do-it-yourself social life Harvard has to offer...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Harvard Life and how to live it | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

There are also those students who prefer the party scene commonly found at large state universities with thriving fraternity and sorority systems. These students readily complain about the infrequency and dullness of parties on campus. Still, others enjoy the laid-back atmosphere and do-it-yourself social life Harvard has to offer...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Harvard Life | 9/18/1986 | See Source »

There are also those students who prefer the party scene commonly found at large state universities with thriving fraternity and sorority systems. These students readily complain about the infrequency and dullness of parties on campus. Still, others enjoy the laid-back atmosphere and do-it-yourself social life Harvard has to offer...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Harvard Life and how to live it | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

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