Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kastner's contacts overseas (one of them, Moshe Sharett, is now Israel's Prime Minister) told him to make a noncommittal answer and keep bargaining. Day after day as the bargainers waited through the spring and summer of 1944, packjammed trainloads of Jews chugged through the pleasant green Hungarian countryside to the camp at Auschwitz, where, instead of being set to forced labor, the prisoners were herded naked into gas chambers, killed and cremated...
...along with Berea's President Francis S. Hutchins,* he happily climbed into a horse-drawn surrey to lead the big parade through the town. The main event, however, was the opening of a play called Wilderness Road, which was written especially for the occasion by Southern Author Paul Green. The play was in every way appropriate-a warm tribute to the builders of Berea who decades ago traveled down the wilderness road of ignorance and persecution "in the service of their ideal...
...famous flower arranger known professionally as Wafu (Gentle Breeze), young Teshigahara was arranging flowers at four, at 14 often replaced his father in classes, as a teen-ager plowed through the Chinese classics. But at 26, Teshigahara, who had chosen as his ikebana name Sofu (Cool Green Breeze), decided to strike out on his own. What Sofu did was as shocking to the classicists as pounding out madrigals to a boogie-woogie beat. The central canon of ikebana for centuries has been Ten-Chi-Jin (Heaven-Earth-Man), where heaven is symbolized by the tall central flower...
Heartbreak Ridge. The infantryman's ordeal in Korea, as experienced by a green French lieutenant and sharply recorded by Director Jacques Dupont (TIME...
...teakwood stand . . . A regular Japanese doll of a woman strolled into the foyer . . . Her feet were thrust into tiny gold slippers twinkling with jewels, and jade and ivory bracelets clattered on her arms. She had the longest fingernails I'd ever seen, each lacquered a delicate green. An almost endless bamboo cigarette holder hung languidly from her bright red mouth . . . There was a moment's silence. 'But darling,' she said dramatically, 'I'm your Auntie Mame!' She put her arms around me and kissed me, and I knew I was safe...