Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus it was natural that when Peking began dismantling the wall of isolation erected during the Cultural Revolution, Huang Hua (Yellow Flower) was named to head one of China's most sensitive foreign posts, the new embassy in Canada. When Huang, 58, arrives in Ottawa some time in the next few weeks, he will become the Communist government's first ambassador in North America...
...caught a glimpse of John Harvard's statue through the Mass Hall gate and noticed that three students were sitting in his lap. Then we passed "Harvard Memorial Theater." and finally headed for our third and last 20-minute stop-the glass flower exhibit at the University Museum...
...people have departed from the conservative mainstream of the American Catholic Church to pose a highly convincing threat to the government's war machine. They have helped organize mass demonstrations, and they have destroyed thousands of draft files. The Baltimore Four, the Catonsville Nine, the Milwaukee Fourteen, the Flower City Conspiracy, and many more-each of these groups has made considerable impact through their practice of non-violent civil disobedience. And with the decline of large but flighty organizations purporting to represent the student Left, the Catholic groups have become the vanguard of the militant antiwar movement in America today...
...three singular events: the Monterey Festival, the Lake Bethel Festival, and a day-long concert at the Altamont Speedway. Each event's claim to singularity is by this time a matter of commonly received opinion: as our commentators have it. Monterey marked the apotheosis of the San Francisco-based flower culture, the Bethel concert (Woodstock) was the great coming together for, in its advertisement's words, three days of Love, Peace and Music, and Altamont the death of flower-power, the death of Love, the death of Rock, depending on whom you read. How each of these affairs became elevated...
Looking more flora than fauna herself, Mrs. David Bruce, wife of the U.S. representative at the Paris peace talks with North Viet Nam, popped across the Channel to London's Chelsea Flower Show to accept the new Evangeline Bruce Rose, named in her honor. Appropriately, for the wife of a diplomat, the Evangeline Bruce is a delicate compromise of pink and cream...