Word: fleurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fleur Cowles and Paul Garrett, retired General Motors publicity chief, both listed in the book, and three others whose anonymity Amory chooses to preserve...
...music. When French teen-agers began wearing black stockings, it was not long before Oxford undergraduettes and Düsseldorf schoolgirls were sable-calved too. German youth has developed a taste for soft French and Italian cheeses. And all over Western Europe this summer, the popular song was Petite Fleur-composed by a New Orleans clarinetist, recorded by a British jazz band, and bestselling in Germany...
...certain works of art, like the two portraits of Baudelaire in the exhibition, (a lithograph by Rouault and an etching by Manet), which sum up the pleasure of collecting. Perhaps motives of sentiment lie behind these choices as well as aesthetic discretion. This is perfectly legitimate. Rouault and Les Fleur du Mal strike a rich chord. It is just this sort of thing which lends collecting an added charm...
...phone calls a week, brief each other on their sessions with distinguished friends. They seldom need to coordinate editorial viewpoints. John may be closer to the famous-Nehru, Eden, Eisenhower -and Mike may lead a more spectacular private life: his present wife is his fourth; his third was tempestuous Fleur Cowles, editor of the avant-gaudy monthly Flair, which failed after twelve issues in 1951. But with identical backgrounds (Exeter, Harvard, Des Moines city rooms), the two brothers think alike. They even look alike: round spectacles and round eyes seemingly wide with perpetual surprise...
...same need to dispel almost universal fear of death from thirst or privation. There are those brave, tragic figures who collapse by the side of the road and gasp: 'Go on without me. I can't make it.'" But millions of boys wore their fleur-de-lis emblems proudly, millions of parents watched astonished as their sons developed knowledge and skills never taught in schools, and the international motto "Be Prepared" became a household phrase...