Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris' Bois de Boulogne. He paused to stare reflectively at a lush hydrangea bush, then hurried on to pick up a dead limb, a handful of dead leaves and a piece of old oak bark. To startled park gardeners an official explained: "That gentleman is a famous Japanese flower arranger, Monsieur Sofu...
...measures, the number of hefty Amazons armed with Tommy guns, and the general attitude, "ask no questions and expect no answers." Headed westward again, Nehru stopped off at Leningrad. There, soon after his arrival, an Indian correspondent wearing a Gandhi cap was mistaken for Nehru and overwhelmed by a flower-brandishing mob who almost trampled him to death trying to kiss him. But there were no Indian newsmen around when Nehru got his ace view of the week: a peek at a Soviet atomic center...
...FLOWER GIRLS (629 pp.) - Clemence Dane-Norton...
...alive) to the downright distasteful (Olive turns out to be a nymphomaniac who believes that variety is the spice of love). But by novel's end, Jacy has found a Florister's one true love, the theater. A Book-of-the-Month Club choice for July, The Flower Girls sprouts eccentrics, melodrama, theater lore, subplots, flashbacks, deaths, alarums and excursions with engaging, old-fashioned abandon. Anyone who plans to while away a lazy summer afternoon with its 629 pages would do well to string up two hammocks, one for himself and another for the book...
...Battle of Blocs. The invitation to Bonn, the trip to Belgrade, the flower-strewn welcome to Nehru (see below) are all part of a new hustle in Soviet diplomacy. The hustle seems to reflect a basic decision that the battle of the blocs is going against them. Unable, now that West Germany has been admitted to the West's ranks, to match the West with their own bloc, the Russians are now out to de-emphasize the whole need for blocs. The nations they cannot win over they hope to deny to the other side. Instead of demanding total...