Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...source of relief. Instead, he encounters only additional frustration in the person of an eight-months-pregnant Doris. This pattern of blighted expectations recurs in the opening scene of the second act; this time, George-now a stuff, Establishment type-exchanges verbal thrusts with Doris-metamorphosed into a Berkeley flower child. Refusing indignantly to sleep with a former Goldwater voter, Doris sniffs, "And all the time I though Democrat...
...because the platform is too high. In fact there is no way of being sure he is there at all, except by believing his announced word as a holy man-but then, Americans of our age are good at that. I can hardly express to you, small flower of our garden, with what pleasure this exhibition filled me. For years I had felt so provincial, so deprived of information. Now I realize that the most advanced forms of Western art are simply what the less fortunate of our countrymen do, in their millions, every day - spontaneously and without choice...
...finally outmanipulated all her manipulators. To Keneally she is the incarnation of an idea whose time had come - the peasant striding into the council of kings and lords of the church. As rude as common fare, she serves notice on the feudal system that knighthood is no longer in flower. As she lifts the siege at Orléans and pushes her balky Dauphin with the "fat, un happy lips" toward his coronation at Rheims, she is hurrying onstage not a monarchy but the modern nation-state. The descendants of this Joan are the bourgeoisie...
...Pressed Flower. The son of an avid shell collector, Connolly had a passion for classifying. He invented categories of style-for instance, mandarin (Samuel Johnson, Henry James, and all those who don't write as they talk, including, of course, Connolly). His lifetime hobby was drawing up lists of those who made literature what it is today, culminating in that half book, half catalogue, The Modern Movement. Connolly loved the sweeping judgment: "The greatest single poem of the first half of the twentieth century . . ." turns out to be the Four Quartets. "If there is one key book...
...African parrot and a box of tame squirrels and a hunchback! Everybody, not excepting the parrot, was wrought up to a pitch of intense excitement." As the Confederacy was closing down, a woman diarist wrote in wonderful magnolia prose: "There they go, the gay and gallant few, the last flower of Southern manhood...