Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard. The amusements Nick's hero(es) engage(s) in are of the drugs-and-bizarre relationships variety, but plus ca change -of the two main girls in our little boy's life, he meets one at his St. Paul's commencement and another at a Fly Club garden party. (A dramatic peak-such as it is-in the book comes when Flo tells Hal she can't afford to go skiing with him in Austria over Christmas, but will probably end up just going skiing with her family in Vermont. "But I'll manage," she promises...
Most of us are human racists. We think that the world was made for us. Some even think that we made the world (and therefore we can destroy it). Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden because they thought that it was all theirs. God was the first ecological revolutionary...
...bathe in the light of Blake's poetry as sung by Ginsberg and his friend Peter Orlovsky, and accompanied on harpsichord, guitar, laughter, and other instruments. The range of musical styles is amazing-from the madrigal-like version of "The Blossom" to the country and western sound of "The Garden of Love." Buy the record, listen to it half a dozen times, and you will find yourself humming and singing "Night" and "The Echoing Green" on the way back from Hilles Library...
...amid formal, terraced gardens, the villa resembles a rambling medieval manor house. But the routine within is briskly efficient. Pope Paul VI rises at 6:30 a.m., bathes, is shaved by his valet and says an early Mass. At breakfast (caffè latte, rolls, fruit), the conversation revolves around the morning news while the Pope glances at newspapers: Le Monde, La Stampa, and Corriere della Sera. At 8:30, in the garden under a centuries-old oak tree, Paul receives a worldwide news briefing that often focuses on church matters: excerpts from a German paper's comments on Vatican...
...there is more work: reading (and often writing marginalia in) the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, and planning or writing important documents. Like his predecessors, Paul works long hours. An hour or so for prayer in the evening, some minutes of symphonic music, a private walk in the garden, more work. Bedtime rarely comes before 1 or 1:30 in the morning...