Word: lilacs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the smart sidewalks of Belgrave Square to the teeming front stoops of South London's slums, an English baby is known by the carriage he keeps. Massive, super-sprung, often a flashy lilac in color, for the Mayfair nanny and the working-class "mum" alike, the Big Pram has become in postwar Britain a symbol of status akin to the automobile in U.S. oneupmanship. But at least one winter baby in England next year is due for a hand-me-down. As Buckingham Palace prepared for the first child to be born to a reigning British monarch...
...great hawk is fascinating enough in life, with its striking black-and-white plumage, 5-ft. wing span and spectacular 100-ft. plunges into the water after fish. But the eggs are truly remarkable: as big as hens' eggs, and speckled in a kaleidoscope of purple, orange, red, lilac, buff, chestnut, violet and black. After the turn of the century, osprey eggs were so much in demand that a set of three brought up to $140-and the bird was on its way out in Britain.* In 1916 the British government put ospreys on the protected list (current penalty...
...this volume, lilac time lasts barely two years (with a few extensions), from March 1933 to the end of 1934. Originally. The Age of Roosevelt was to have been a one-volume job. but Harvard's Historian Schlesinger became so fascinated with his subject that he now expects he may need four or more volumes before he can complete his monument to F.D.R. Like the first volume. The Crisis of the Old Order (TIME, March n, 1957). this one relies too heavily on scraps from the daily press, and often reads as though it were threaded rather than written...
...thoroughgoing pragmatist; he sticks close to events, rarely offers perspective on them. There is little effort to explore the philosophical roots of the New Deal, and there is no attempt at long-range assessment beyond the reiterated conviction that the men who were having those long drinks under the lilac bushes saved the country from disaster. In discussing the New Deal's opponents, Schlesinger stresses their rages and follies. Generally. F.D.R.'s adversaries are made to seem like those stubborn mules who refused to plow the cottonfields under; there is no suggestion that in the long view...
Surrounded by Russian souvenirs, including a 6-ft. lilac bush, mop-topped Pianist Van Cliburn, 23, fresh from victory in Moscow's International Tchaikovsky Competition, flew into New York to clasp his happy parents with bear hugs, gab about his Russian hosts ("They're very much like Texans"), shake hands with fans (among them, one seven-year-old who rapturously referred...