Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...irony of her victory is that in many ways, Margaret Thatcher seems to be Ted Heath's female Doppelgänger. Although her garden party hats and porcelain-voweled laments over "the twilight of the middle class" belie it, Mrs. Thatcher shares Heath's relatively humble background-the one the daughter of a Lincolnshire grocer, the other the son of a Kentish carpenter. Both have been characterized as being almost frostily reserved and unassailably self-confident. Both owe their political rise to impressive performances as Tory spokesmen on financial affairs, Thatcher in the past few months, Heath...
...fountains. Action. "This is the day God has made," beams the Rev. Robert Schuller as he bounds toward the pulpit. A glass panel separating the walk-in sanctuary from the drive-in sanctuary lumbers open. As a dozen fountains spurt skyward, a collective sigh from 1,700 worshipers at Garden Grove Community Church in Southern California announces the start of another Hour of Power...
...Wodehouse canon every year, as some people go back for spiritual sustenance to Shakespeare or the Bible. "For Mr. Wodehouse there has been no fall of Man, no 'aboriginal calamity,' " Waugh wrote. "His characters have never tasted the forbidden fruit. They are still in Eden. The gardens of Blandings Castle are that original garden from which we are all exiled...
...more real. It consists of virtually anonymous objects with actual uses, free of a designer's narcissism, refined over a long time, that work. The Japanese package is no less an aspect of the country's cultural heritage than the design of a "stolen view" garden or the traditional cutting of a mortise-and-tenon joint in a cedar beam. Like the rest of that heritage, it is dying. The souvenir shop of the famous Ryoanji temple in Kyoto sells boxes of tiny oblong sugar candies. The boxes are exquisitely plain, made of thin strips of unpainted pine...
...platform is too high. In fact there is no way of being sure he is there at all, except by believing his announced word as a holy man-but then, Americans of our age are good at that. I can hardly express to you, small flower of our garden, with what pleasure this exhibition filled me. For years I had felt so provincial, so deprived of information. Now I realize that the most advanced forms of Western art are simply what the less fortunate of our countrymen do, in their millions, every day - spontaneously and without choice. Do you think...