Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monocles or the concupiscent dancers in the wagonlit. Just the respectable Mr. Pulling, smoking his first stick of pot, gift of an American girl who calls herself Tooley. With a boy friend who paints Brand X soup cans and a father in the CIA, Tooley is the ultimate in flower-child hippiedom. The pot she gives poor Pulling happens to have been pushed to her by Wordsworth. Pulling is taking his first trip with Mother...
...Denmark, and four of them are his great-great-grandchildren as well. Every one could have called Kaiser Wilhelm or Czar Nicholas cousin, but more than one started life as miss or mister. Any good monarchist or earnest Anglophile could identify the lot as the youth and flower of Britain's royal family, assembled for a rare group photograph over the holidays at Windsor. From the left: James, Sarah, George, Helen, Charles, David, Andrew, Marina, Anne, Edward...
...nonsense about how awful America is. If you feel that way, why stay here? We were brought up to think that anything that is worthwhile in life is worth working for and sacrificing for. It's never going to be one big beautiful world, like some of the flower children seem to be demanding. Life isn't like that...
...their tandem poetry readings in Miami when Allen's pro-drug comments ("I am turned on more often than I watch television") drove the elder Ginsberg to prose. "Shame on you, Allen," he interrupted, pointing at his bushy-bearded boy. "You are the guru of the flower generation, and you keep telling them to smoke pot and use LSD, knowing they can get in trouble with the police. You set a bad example." Allen, for once, sat speechless...