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...noted that "over three generations of Kennedys have attended convents of the Sacred Heart all over the world. Over 30 members." A little later, looking up from her written text, she entered a laughing aside: "Gosh, this sounds like a terrible graduation address." Dropping by a class on flower arrangement, she was enthusiastic: "They ought to teach flower arrangement back home. It's terrific." And in a calligraphy class, she wrote three Japanese characters on the blackboard meaning "Japanese and American friendship." (Ethel had worked hard at learning a few phrases and characters on the plane to Japan...
...free expression of thankfulness to God-with the accent on freedom," says Episcopal Canon Rudolf Devik, of Seattle's diocesan stewardship department. "Charity may include anything the person feels is the work of God. It could include the Seattle Symphony. We sort of draw the line at flower clubs...
...seems strange and slightly ridiculous that you should express special discomfort for the Congo's savagery in the same issue in which you have a certain "French Flower" asking whether it is Christian to torture one's enemies, and concluding that it is. I cannot muster any greater horror for the African style of madness than for that of Western culture. Plastic bombs seem to be better mutilators than do knives...
...native Holland -houses and windmills, rivers and canals. As the years passed, Mondrian began to strip awyay the outer layers of nature to reveal its skeletal geometry. A tree was not made up of a trunk and branches but of horizontals and verticals. When Mondrian painted a flower, he was primarily interested in its "plastic structure...
Rattigan and Mills thus create an absorbing Theory of Lawrence, but the play sometimes slithers toward schoolboy romantics and when-empire-was-in-flower nostalgia. No amount of skilled acting can wholly conceal that General Allenby (John Williams) is a stock pukka sahib, that the commander at Deraa (Geoffrey Keen) is a stock sweaty Turkish dog of a villain, and that Auda Abu Tayi (Paul Sparer) is a stock native chief, corrupt but endearing...