Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sure enough, Daisy turns out to be the reincarnation of one Melinda Moncrief, the daughter of an 18th century parvenu. Soon we have flashed back to the world of manor houses and wide green lawns, and the gayness which ensues virtually welcomes Mr. Lerner back to his element. Meanwhile Mark, the dashing young shrink, falls in love with Daisy as Melinda (the girl has changed her accent, remember?). Daisy discovers that Mark has fallen for her 18th century model and runs away in tears of frustration. Mark catches her at the airport where she miraculously reintegrates the various centuries...
...Green Berets, Moore...
...years First Guam-based B-52s blasted the sides of the target. Then, swooping in over startled water buffaloes and silent paddies, helicopters brought in troops of the 173rd U.S. Airborne and the Royal Australian Regiment. The clearing in the trees was soon a blur of yellow red and green flare smoke, darting transport choppers, and prowling Cobras (armed helicopters). A battery of the Royal New Zealand Artillery moved up by truck. Finally, as a heavy rain began to fall, the Vietnamese paratroopers swooped down among the rubber trees in the biggest parachute assault in Viet Nam since 1963. Soon...
...bring to the shelve of supermarkets, road Signs and neon light all the naive delight with which the primitives approached nature's wonders. The abstract aires expressionists, for all their paint slinging often evoked a topography new in art, often but recognizable . De Kooning's splashes of green and brown are glimpses of landscape any driver who barrels down a thruway at 85 m.p.h,; Jackson Pollock's Autumn Rythm distills the essence of a smoky fall day; his skeins of paint make of a season an environment. Arshile Gorky's Water of the Flowery Mill...
Bloody well develop it. And so he does in the course of this minor, deft, deliciously droll and sometimes startlingly profound little novel by P. H. Newby (The Barbary Light, Revolution and Roses), the most ingenious and beguiling Puck to appear on the scene since Henry Green came popping out of the all-too-hollow log of contemporary English literature...