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...force that through the green fuse drives the flower...
Another is a story of how Frances Marshal Lyautey, anxious to plant a tree, was told by his gardener that there was no hurry-it would not flower for 100 years. "In that case," said the marshal, "plant it this afternoon." Kennedy, concludes Sorensen, "believed in planting trees this afternoon...
Apparently, every Wellesley class has a class color, and a class motto, and a class racing shell (for use on Tree Day, but that's another story), and a class tree, and a class flower, and probably a class ice cream flavor. Everyone at Wellesley is expected to know these things, and a girl would probably be put on pro if she didn't collapse with laughter at the mention of lemon juice or larch bark. All of which is a bit puzzling to an outsider...
Writers on Wednesdays. In London the era of the coffeehouse was in full Johnsonian flower-a man's world where only such freshly limned ladies as Fanny Hill and Fielding's Sophia Western were admitted to the discourse. Parisian culture was conducted far differently: it was the women who presided over the salons of serious talk. On Tuesdays, for example, the Marquise de Lambert was wont to entertain scientists in her stately salon, and on Wednesdays writers, artists and scholars. "She was one of the hundreds of gracious, cultured, civilized women who make the history of France...
...grass roots. Macapagal invaded northern Luzon-Marcos' stronghold-in his air-conditioned Ford Galaxie with license plate No. 1, and was in good form, averaging 20 handshakes a minute. Marcos is putting on a more colorful show, appearing bedecked with a lei made of sampaguitas, the national flower, and singing duets with his beauteous wife, Imelda, before jeeping off to the next barrio...