Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flower of Manhood. In Los Angeles, addressing a florists' convention, Benton E. Krischer suggested that as a "revolt against monotony" men should wear flowers in their beards, illustrated his point by sporting a delphinium...
...Japanese novel is rather like a Japanese flower arrangement. It is subtle, delicate and personal, and it invariably fades a little in the vase of translation. The Sound of Waves does not wholly escape this fate, but its 31-year-old author, Yukio Mishima, is a spare-time weight lifter, and he has infused his tale of troubled young love among hard-working fisherfolk with a peasant robustness notably lacking in recent, more aristocratically attuned Japanese novels, e.g., Lady of Beauty, Some Prefer Nettles...
...women divers of an unofficial "best-shaped breasts" contest. A fleeting kiss on the beach is about all Shinji can hope for from Hatsue, since her father is a wealthy shipowner with small use for penniless apprentice fishermen. Author Mishima, who seems to have learned some of his flower-arranging from Hollywood, maroons the couple in an abandoned tower during a storm...
Instead, the bare stage was bathed in cobalt blue, and a giant, soft. flower ball was suspended above a bench, which represented Hans Sachs' shop. For the singing contest of Act III, W71eland tried a bullfight effect, with a 50-ft. high amphitheater surrounding a bright yellow ring, in which the singers performed...
...When you pull yourself up by your bootstraps," says Dean McGee, president of Oklahoma's Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc., "it's like a flower opening up-slowly at first, and then it finally spreads out." A small independent, Kerr-McGee spent 20 years pulling itself up to a $15 million annual business. Then, in the past five years, it trebled in size. Last week, Kerr-McGee spread itself still wider. It put together a combine with uranium ore reserves estimated at some 5,000,000 tons on the Colorado Plateau (total U.S. reserves: 30 million tons), worth...