Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense of humor, the Pixies established "people's departments" to handle a whole range of services. To protest air pollution, the Pixies' Environment Department stopped traffic by staging smiling street sit-ins -but only on Saturday afternoons when families go shopping in their cars. They introduced cartop flower boxes to beautify parking lots. Their Housing Department seized empty buildings, scrubbed them clean and opened them to some of the city's 15,000 homeless. They organized an Old-Age Department, offering lonely pensioners free services like shopping, painting or just chatting; no fewer than 350 old Amsterdamers...
...scene. Last week in Pravda, Yevtushenko published a 111-line poem to Allison Krause, one of the four students killed by National Guard gunfire at Kent State University. His theme was a gesture reportedly made by Allison, 19, on the day before her death. She put a flower in the muzzle of a Guardsman's rifle and said: "Flowers are better than bullets." It was one of the Russian's more bathetic recent poems, aimed not so much against America as against war and militarist authority. Sample lines...
...enough places at the head tables. Some feathers were ruffled as 15 ladies had to step down to dine at the floor-level tables. But all proceeded smoothly again through the ceremonies, when officers presented four $1,000 scholarships, Smokey Bear awards, an anti-litter trophy, and the flower arrangements and horticultural prizes...
...devoted to the San Francisco scene-the origins of the Height, the "summer of love" and the following autumn, when the hippie movement was declared dead, murdered by the media. From there, the book shifts back to the East, keeping pace with the changing vibrations, as the love-peace-flower power ethic finally dissolves, and the Movement begins to splinter...
...laid out before you, as the tone of his writings changes with the tone of the community. The respected policemen of the first part of the book become the pigs of the second. United community leaders from one article suddenly reappear as leaders of opposing factions in another. The flower power ethic, gently regarded in the beginning of the book, is nothing but a myth...