Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distract me on evenings when I seemed abnormally wretched, a magic lantern ... it substituted for the opaqueness of my walls an impalpable iridescence, supernatural phenomena of many colours, in which legends were depicted, as on a shifting and transitory window." The lantern is still there. So is the scrubby garden behind the house, with the little door whose tinkling gate bell announced visitors-and signaled that the young Proust was to be sent up to his bedroom to be kept out of the way. For the dedicated Proustian, the bell evokes the author's agony...
...Image. On her father's arm, Tricia followed her attendants-including Matron of Honor Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Ed Cox's sister Mary Ann, the maid of honor-down the steps from the Blue Room balcony and into the garden, where the President gave his daughter away before the small wrought-iron gazebo painted white. Her gown, by Priscilla of Boston, was an elegant white silk organdy. The all-lace bodice was molded to show her tiny waist and scalloped at the wide V neckline. Altogether, the gown was striking and sophisticated, a departure from the little-girl...
...Eversharp Inc.'s chairman of the board, Patrick Frawley Jr. Mamie Eisenhower presided like a kind of surrogate grandmother. Martha Mitchell came extravagantly dressed in a vaguely antebellum orange and white ruffled, ankle-length gown and carrying a bright yellow parasol. She brought it into the Rose Garden, leading Melvin Laird to grump: "I thought everybody checked their umbrellas inside...
...piano accompanist for his father Jan Kubelik, the noted Czech violinist, but he comes to his present job after international success as a guest conductor and a long career as a music director of the Czech Philharmonic, the Brno Opera House, Britain's Royal Opera House at Covent Garden and, most recently, the Bavarian Radio Symphony in Munich...
...generation ("Young too late, old too soon") that grew up without ever getting a chance to go to the barricades, whether in Spain or Israel. Squeezed now in a moral vise between "the old and resentful have-everythings and the young know-nothings," Jake cultivates his own garden, "inflated with love but ultimately self-serving and cocooned by money." Swishing a brandy at his fashionable Hampstead house, he is riddled by an anxiety that retribution is approaching. He looks for it in imagined bodily diseases, in natural disasters, in persecution by "the injustice collectors...