Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, a number of the new towns were built in the wrong place at the wrong time. Newfields (near Dayton) and Riverton and Gananda (outside Rochester) were begun when the nearby metropolitan areas were losing jobs. Other towns like Flower Mound were located outside the path of growth of their cities. As a result, all the HUD new towns have experienced slower-than-expected growth. Flower Mound has attracted only 420 residents in six years, out of a projected eventual population of 61,141. Gananda was a ghost town until a developer took over last year. Besides that, a number...
...Maumelle, Ark.; Shenandoah, Ga.; Park Forest South, Ill.; St. Charles, Md.; Cedar-Riverside and Jonathan, Minn.; Gananda and Riverton, N.Y.; Soul City, N.C.; Newfields, Ohio; Harbison, S.C.; Flower Mound and The Woodlands, Texas...
...turned their revolt against their own class into something like a religious principle, so the New York painters declared their separation from American materialism by means of an impassioned sense of the numinous. They found it in nature as well as culture: Arshile Gorky's paintings, full of flower stems and tendons and odd rhythmic copulations of not-quite-abstract form, are among the most exquisite animistic landscapes in the history of romantic painting...
...immediately endeared him to masses of people in a media age, as if they had befriended him by wire. "I felt that if I had a problem, I could go to this Pope and talk to him about it," said Father John T. Pagan of New York's Little Flower Children's Services. For many he seemed to rekindle singlehanded some half-lost feeling of goodness about the church...
...brick wall on the grounds has turned into a "Wall of Love," covered with scrawled messages from admirers. Some of the fans have patiently endured the three-hour wait every day for a week so they can again and again walk up the shaded driveway, past rows of huge flower arrangements sent from all over the world, to the bronze plaque marking Presley's grave. They pass by at a rate of about 1,200 an hour. "Just being close makes me feel good," says Fay Matheny, 34, a factory worker from Richmond, Va. Karen Christ, 30, of Canton...