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...want to grow a garden? No; this time the Agriculture Department wants no radishy "Victory Gardens" in tindery back yards. Its advice to city dwellers: leave the gardens to fanners, sublimate the urge with flower boxes, spend the difference on Defense Bonds...
...There are now American troops within easy striking distance of western occupied territory as well as Canadian divisions and fine British troops all itching to strike a blow at the Germans. Great as is the mobilized force of the Germans, they have lost the flower of their troops in Russia. . . . That is Hitler's dilemma and he will not be allowed to forget...
...twangy, long-necked tambura, a flute spun its single thread of melody. In the traditional Indian dance-forms, the dancers moved hands, arms, shoulders, necks, more purposively than their feet. Lithe, hollow-cheeked Bhupesh Guha became the god of spring, his fluttering hand a bee alighting on a flower to drink honey. Willowy Sushila was the lotus-born Lakshmi, placing buds at the feet of Vishnu, her arms and hands moving with the deliberate grace of a cobra. Bhupesh Guha became a hunter with tasseled spear, stalking the tiger, wary, fleet, then charging in for the kill. His frenzied ritual...
Music. In Chicago, John and Xenia Cage, tired of the old musical sounds, gave a concert with a beer bottle, a barrel, flower pots, an iron pipe, brake drums, thunder sheets, rattles, dinnerbells and buzzers. Mr. Cage played the piano with his elbows...
...months, even years, of effort. It takes about two years to get essential oil from the tuberose, three years for jasmine, at least four for cassie or ylang-ylang. And it takes ancient skills and a Merlin's genius to produce just the right oils once the flower is ripe for its "enfleurage." But Latin America has the climate and the cheap labor to make a brave...