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...Demons. Looking Eastward, he mused that there "individual life does not rebel; there is too little of it for rebellion. One soul mingles with another like smoke." But in the West, "every life has its own special, if invisible, garden plot. . . . A man stands alone between the tended flower beds and the little porticoes of a house from which no one, by law and equity, is entitled to expel him. He stands alone, by himself; the soft blue air is around him; he is unencumbered on all sides, like a statue. This is the only way he knows...
...fence was torn down around President Goheen's residence, an on-campus estate called "Prospect," and his flower beds were trampled. New Jersey state troopers were called in to join local police in quelling the riot...
...garden party for 100 foreign Fulbright scholars, the President was upstaged by a 17-month-old Arab girl, who cavorted around him and cried "Mommie, mom-mie," while Kennedy saluted "some of the brightest minds from abroad." Said the President, manfully ignoring the fact that some of his new flower beds had taken a beating from the week's crowds: "This garden, like other things around Washington, is new and growing and blossoming...
Toward noon of a soft London day last week, Westminster Abbey glowed as richly as a Renaissance painting. From the banner-draped high altar to the flower-banked west door, the great Gothic nave was adazzle with tinted plumes and winking tiaras. Packed into rows of rented wooden chairs, the 2,000 waiting guests put their best profiles forward for the 30 TV cameras covering the abbey. At 12:02, two minutes behind schedule, a trumpet fanfare sounded from the rafters, the organ thundered Holy, Holy, Holy, and the bridal procession started its stately advance up the blue-carpeted aisle...
...eyed cadavers, skull-like gas masks. bloody vines of barbed wire and battered nerves has much the same pitiless sting as Goya's gruesome series of etchings. The Disasters of the War. Man's shreds of nobility as well as his flesh rot away into humus. A flower casually grows through the clenched hand of a corpse, petals sprout from his chest...