Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benevolent State. As the influence of his youthful government moved out towards Burma's wild green frontiers, U Nu put in more work on his counterrevolution...
...like Hoover Dam-makes faucets flow and deserts flower. The Interior Department is presently planning to irrigate the vast Upper Colorado Basin with two more great dams. In all, another 15 million acres of the waterless West can be economically reclaimed. The rest may forever remain lunar landscape, like Green River's grotesque canyon and Monument Valley's stark buttes (see color pages...
Lengthening Shadows. The old man glanced up at the crowd of 10,000, and at the green cornfields stretching endlessly beyond the park. "There are voices in our country," he said, "who daily sound alarms that our civilization is on the way out. Concentrated on the difficulties of our times, they see an early and dour end for us. But civilization does not decline and fall while the people still possess dynamic creative faculties, devotion to religious faith and to liberty. The American people still possess these qualities. We are not at the bedside of a nation in death agony...
...Fred Muggs, the 31-lb. chimpanzee who earns $500 a week for co-starring on NBC's Today with Dave Garroway, stopped traffic in Paris, Rome, Cairo and Tokyo on a whirlwind round-the-world tour. London was skipped because NBC felt that British memories might still be green about Muggs's narrowly stealing the coronation telecast from Queen Elizabeth. NBC Pressagent Mary A. Kelly, one of Muggs's entourage of five, wrote home excitedly that Parisians were exclaiming, "Regardez la petite béte!" and that "even Robespierre would have admired the mobs in our wake...
Neither Eakins nor Homer cared a rap for the quality thought indispensable in Europe: art which conceals art. They achieved something rarer: honesty which may transcend art. The heart of summer, the gleam of flesh against green foliage, are conveyed in Eakins' Swimming Hole. And a man looking at Snap the Whip can remember what it felt like to get out of school and run barefoot on the grass...