Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...risk of sounding like an aging flower child come down with a terminal case of the jeremiads, I wish to remind TIME that the very power of the American promise, of the dream, makes all the more unbearable the malevolent legacy from our first two centuries...
...paintings are etched with hard desert lines and spaces, and at times, Artist Georgia O'Keeffe has seemed like a prickly flower blooming in one of her own solitary landscapes. To a reporter visiting her isolated home in Abiquiu, N. Mex., she once offered this insight into her work: "If you don't get it, that's too bad." At the mellowing age of 88, however, O'Keeffe has decided there is a bit to be said after all. The result is a book of reflections on her life as a painter due to come...
...music is no older than the century, and many of its fathers are still alive and playing. Painting and classical music progress sequentially, discarding earlier styles and forms in pursuit of the new (nobody, for example, paints like Giotto today, or composes like Haydn), but jazz continues to flower cumulatively, taking on and transforming the new without ever abandoning the old. It is a fugue with a life of its own, endlessly recapitulating itself. If its vitality dims from time to time under the onslaught of fads or sheer noise, jazz simply sits out a few sets, catches its breath...
...short man with a wide brow, a benign expression, and a mission that even the Indians have noticed. They call him Puc-puggy (the flower hunter). William Bartram is collecting and classifying America's plants and seeds. He sends the most interesting specimens, or his drawings of them, to John Fothergill, a botanist and physician in London who is paying Bartram's expenses plus ? 50 a year. What the current troubles between the Colonies and England will do to this arrangement is uncertain, though Bartram never gives politics a thought. He moves totally rapt in the world...
While the jugglers are the biggest draw among the street entertainers, there are plenty of others. Harvard Square is a living testament to the fact that the '60s are not quite behind us. While ex-flower children do not exactly abound, they are not difficult to find. Most depressing of all are the gang of hari krishna people who hang out in front of The Coop. All together now--ohmmmmmmm...