Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neatly spaced amid the welter of bulldozers, cranes and sweating U.S. marines on Yellow Beach north of Beirut, Lebanon last week stood five green and white umbrellas boldly emblazoned SEVEN-UP. The umbrellas each sheltered a friendly Lebanese vendor with an iced soft-drink box packed with Seven-Up. They were spaced with such orderly precision because the marines' beachmaster decided in his second week ashore that the hordes of Lebanese pop salesmen needed as much organization as the unloading of supplies into that precise point of the crisis-torn Middle East...
Trying to live down the blood bath, the new government sent soldiers all over Baghdad with green paint to erase extremist anti-Western slogans. Photographs of violence (including pictures of the naked corpse of the Crown Prince hanging footless from a post, and the dismembered body of Premier Nuri being dragged through the streets) disappeared from shops. Strict orders were issued to the public against molesting foreigners. The violently anti-Western newspaper Al-Bilad was told to stop its inflammatory editorials; the radio kept issuing reassuring reports on the oil industry, whose refineries went on producing and whose foreign technicians...
Composer Shapero contributes a jazz arrangement of a Monteverdi chaconne. Entitled No Green Mountains (a play on Monteverdi's name), it holds its baroque flavor and allows for some intriguing solo-trumpet embroidery on the main theme. Most successful work is Transformation, by Composer Schuller, who is both the first horn player of the Metropolitan Opera and a sometime player in jazz combos. His tautly constructed piece opens with a wistful theme, gradually begins to swing, gives way to free improvisation and a swelling riff in the wind instruments. All the pieces have their fascinating moments, but they seem...
Astutely aware that the pleasant sinkholes where a man misspends his youth glow with unearthly allure as the green years recede, the proprietors of Leavitt & Peirce, a Cambridge (Mass.) tobacco hall and onetime pool hall, invited 31 old Harvard graduates to psalm their shop's 75th anniversary. Done up in a handsome volume that is illustrated by snapshots of mustached crewmen, football mastodons of the 1880s, and a sinful tintype of a 19th century Cambridge sybarite puffing a hookah, the sentimental replies set up a blue haze of reminiscence...
...most complicated metaphor of this season's hot-weather literature, a randy old Hungarian dandy likens the American girl to the avocado: "A hard center with the tender meat all wrapped up in a shiny casing. So green-so eternally green . . . And I will tell you something really extraordinary. Do you know that you can take the stones of these luscious fruits, put them in water-just plain water, mind you . . . and in three months up comes a sturdy little plant full of green leaves? This is their sturdy little souls bursting into bloom...