Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Botanical Museum will display their Blaschka Glass Flower collection outside of the University for only the second time in 83 years, Richard E. Schultes '37, director of the museum said yesterday...
Schultes said that a myth had been perpetuated that called the flower-making process secret and known only to Blaschka. He dismissed this, saying that the process was well known to Blaschka's contemporaries...
...virtues of UNITA and its leader are scrawled on walls throughout this small, colonial town in the Angolan highlands. Most of the Portuguese who once lived in the neat concrete houses with red tile roofs have long since fled the country. Squatters who carefully maintain the lawns and flower beds now live in many of these homes. The Portuguese left Silva Porto taking all the city maps, plans for the city water system and, of course, 400 years of experience. Nonetheless, the place seems to run amazingly well. Street sweepers are out daily, and the hedge outside the Governor...
...that went "Support mental health or I'll kill you." One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a residue of that mid-sixties sentiment. Like the button it makes a sick kind of sense, though its message is, finally, silly and, in a simplistic way, evil. Only under flower-child aegis (Kesey's book was celebrated by Tom Wolfe, Allen Ginsberg and other gurus) could a 1975 audience be fed such sexist, crypto-fascist garbage. In the end, it's nothing more than pop psychology on the level of a counter-cultural Reader's Digest. Unless people take...
...wife, who was allowed to leave Russia earlier for an eye operation, accepted the prize in his stead. Standing on a flower-bedecked podium, Yelena Bonner Sakharov smilingly received the gold Nobel medal and the $143,000 check that goes with it. Then she read the five-minute acceptance speech that her husband had managed to send out of the Soviet Union. Characteristically, Russia's most outspoken champion of civil liberties took the occasion to plead for a worldwide amnesty for political prisoners. He also expressed his "deep personal longing" for "genuine disarmament." After the ceremony, Yelena Sakharov watched...