Word: flower
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Finally, plantings serve to accent city monochromes, with greens and pinks. Although plants are harder to care for than macadam, the flower bed on the traffic island just North of the Common testifies that plants are feasible and refreshing mid-city and even mid-traffic. Limited areas of ground cover like pachysandra, evergreens like taxus, juniper, euonymus and holly, attractive, spare trees like birch, dogwood and Japanese cherry, and protable planters with shurbs and annuals make up a rich vocabulary a landscape architect could choose from to transform Brattle Square...
...tree-shaded Boston Common has been a cherished redoubt for the city's weary ever since British troops evacuated it 192 years ago. This summer it is being occupied by an antiforce, as hippies from all over the U.S. invade it for what may be the flagging flower world's last great love-in. They spend their days singing, sleeping and making love. As the hot weather sets in, they frolic in the Frog Pond or listen to rock concerts by such groups as the Ultimate Spinach...
Oddly enough, some of the more proper Bostonians have bent over backward to try to help the flower children. Warned in advance of the invasion, Mayor Kevin H. White formed a committee of businessmen, clerics, resident hips, police and psychologists to resolve the hippies' hang...
Natkin (reading from graffiti ads): "Keep America beautiful. Bury a cheap, ugly pen today. Buy a Paper Mate." Some research has been done on this and it looks like it's working. "Draw a flower on your knee with a Paper Mate Flair." Westbrook: Why not "navel...
Natkin: They wouldn't let us say it. We are going to compromise. It was going to be "Draw a flower around your genitals with a Paper Mate Flair." Then they'd say "knee" and we'd say "navel," and we'd meet in the middle...