Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be a "wilderness of concrete and asphalt," said another girl. "The different levels of sidewalk look like a miniature golf course," declared a third. "We like flowers," said one little girl, who added that the flower areas should not be formal but rather "like the Secret Garden" in Radcliffe Yard...
...scene was the White House flower garden, crowded with a giggle of presidential secretaries, a gaggle of Congressmen, Bob Hope as the guest of honor, and John Kennedy as his admiring straight man. What was Hope doing there? He had come, along with his wife, to receive from President Kennedy a congressional gold medal for having entertained U.S. troops all over the world since 1941. Hope was happy-although there was "one sobering thought. I received this for going outside the country. I think they are trying to tell me something...
Died. Leslie Abraham Hyam, 62, president since 1953 of Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, a London-born patrician who helped found the art auction house in 1937, taking as his fields Chinese jade, French furniture and English flower painting; of a heart attack; in Canaan, Conn...
...campus. He cannot even say that "Karl Marx was the most important man of the century" without being sacked. (He should have been fired for puerility, not subversion.) This humanist hails from New England, but his behavior is strictly late Roman. He weeps a lot, likes to fiddle with flower arrangements, takes barbiturates, has a penchant for sharing his quarters with other delicate young men. Occasionally he reproaches himself in lush metaphor. "You talk like a gelded pedagogue who has never felt the blood of manhood throbbing like red Chianti in his veins...
Meanwhile, the breakfast of hamburgers, pancakes and scrambled eggs was disappearing fast. A young man from Greenwich engaged three girls in a discussion of Plato. Another had to be extricated from a giant flower...