Word: gardened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Constitutionals have been a part of Chagall's routine all his life. The country pleases him more than the city; and since 1950, he has lived in rustic Vence, an ancient town of Roman origins perched in the Maritime Alps. Each day, he sorties from the garden of his white-walled studio house, Les Collines (The Hills), past the orange trees whose fruits lie rotting on the ground, along lines of spear-like cypresses and sun-baked terraces exploding with olive trees, down to Avenue Henri Matisse, then cuts off to rocky, flower-lined paths unknown to tourists. After...
Then the President went into the Rose Garden for a routine ceremony. That done, he went back to the White House, shouting over his shoulder to reporters, "I'll be back in a moment." He returned with Goldberg, his wife and son, Robert, 24, in tow. The President briskly told reporters that Goldberg was his man for the U.N. Then, as his wife stood by, her eyes sad, Arthur Goldberg made a moving acceptance speech. "I shall not, Mr. President, conceal the pain with which I leave the court after three years of service. It has been the richest...
...public blame for the fiasco. Sorensen recalls how Kennedy told a news conference the obvious fact that he was "the responsible officer of government," after remarking ruefully: "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan." Yet Sorensen also remembers how, while walking in the White House garden the same day, Kennedy "told me, at times in caustic tones, of some of the other fathers of defeat who had let him down." The "fathers" were the new President's top-level advisers, particularly in the Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency, most of them Eisenhower Administration holdovers...
...able to help plan the ideal courtyard for his wasted bronze figures, which today are in the open air looking like ghosts out for a stroll. Alexander Calder contributed a 41-ton stabile, a great black dog, for the front yard. Miró filled his section, a rock-wall garden, with droll ceramics, one a giant egg nesting in a quiet pond. And in typically glad ribbons of red, green and blue, Chagall laid out his first mosaic...
...last cornice Dante walks through a wall of fire ("When I was in it, into molten glass/ I would have thrown myself to be refreshed") to burn away his lust, and then passes into the terrestrial paradise, the garden of Eden, where he sees again his beloved Beatrice...