Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There the deadlock stood - until last week, when Common Market ministers meeting in Brussels finally agreed on a plan that will go into effect in 1968 and pay up to $1.5 billion annually to French wheat growers, Dutch dairy men, Italian fruit and vegetable farmers, and Belgian beet-sugar producers to subsidize their exports. France will collect 40% to 45% of this total. Funds for these payments will be raised in equal parts from duties on farm imports from outside the Common Market and from payments by the treasuries of the Six, in a proportion of 32% from France...
...dozen years later, the freshmen and sophomores staged a massive battle in the dining room, pelting each other with fruit and vegetables. When several were suspended, students congressed once again under Rebellion Elm, and the entire sophomore class decided to resign from the College. They recanted within two weeks, but not all were readmitted. This effort also inspired a poetic outpouring: a poem in four cantos, "Rebelliad; or Terrible Transactions at the Seat of the Muses...
Hero meets villain in the small Mid-western town where Furber holds forth as the local yack-in-the-pulpit. "Both of Omensetter's hands reached for his hand, enclosing it like a worm in a fruit." Obsessed with envy, Furber spreads lies about Omensetter and even tries to persuade the townspeople that he has committed murder. In the end the reverend repents his persecution, but too late to preserve his reason, which drowns in a loud orange effluvium of emotion...
Rebellion & Innovation. Bradley Walker Tomlin's abstract expressionism (see overleaf) with its mingling of signature brush strokes, does not seem so far removed in its liquid pastel forms from Pop Artist James Rosenquist's more explicit Fruit Salad. Larry Poons's placement of blue spots on a field of gold in Aqua Regia produces a Mexican-jumping-bean effect of afterimage dots; yet he has no more corner on optical effects than Bonnard, whom one young first-nighter enjoyed as "a guy who used phosphorescent, Day-glo paint before the stuff was invented or used...
...more so because its editors seem to have solved their problems of selection by including everything they could find. The infrequent throwaway of an undergraduate publishing cartel is reputedly paying for undergraduate fiction--something nobody else can afford to do. And then there's the Island, the first fruit of an extraordinarily literary freshman class...