Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Specks of Success. Such is the plot of Red Flower, one of the seven novelettes written by Liu Shao Tang, the "boy genius" of Red China, between his 13th and 1 6th years. More than 100,000 copies of his work were sold, and Liu modestly noted that "whatever little specks of success I may achieve - I who have always been reared and cultivated by the party -such specks of success are the result of the party's blood and heart." At 18, armed with a party recommendation, Liu left off writing about the heady world of production quotas...
...jargon, e.g., tillyvally, bawcock, clodpole. Such venerable comics as Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek are no subtler or funnier than the names they bear. However fetchingly its poetry may glisten through the monkeyshines, it is a comedy of errors usually compounded in production. To handle this thorny flower at all on sponsored TV takes courage beyond the call of drama; to evoke as much fragrance as NBC's Hall of Fame succeeded in doing last week is a phenomenon rare even in the theater...
...poignantly ironic staff of their old age. The title tale Mooltiki has a hint of Disney. Mooltiki is a kind of reluctant dragon among lady elephants. She rumbles and grumbles audibly while stoking the mighty campfire with logs. She would rather blow bubbles in the river or clutch a flower in her trunk than be a proper beast of burden. Around Mooltiki's plotless existence revolve a skin-prickling tiger hunt and Author Godden's evocations of the lush tropical fecundities of Indian jungle country. Rumer Godden is a fastidious craftsman but a trifle hammy. Some...
Mamie's beaver coat was merely another of the thousands of gadgets, gimcracks and articles pressed on Presidents and their wives by well-meaning U.S. groups. (Ike once got a readymade flower bed.) The chief complaint, if beaver does come back, may come from U.S. husbands who have hocked themselves for mink...
...wait in here, I'll be back in a minute," she said, showing me into a room through a purple door. The room held a curious assortment of decoration: an oriental rug, a Japanese figure lamp, a serapecovered chair, and flower prints surrounded a green modern couch half circling a round, low table on which an alligator and a black jaguar crouched...