Word: locust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that wouldn't seem to be true from just looking around you. After all, rock records are selling all over town, like, three times more than ever before. And now there are lots of different groups in the racks, and so on. But the dreaded locust swarms of ill fortune will soon be seen darkening rock's horizons when the record companies jack up their lp prices to four and five dollars later in the next month. Slightly longer then a year ago records went for $2.40 apiece. Who's going to buy them when they cost twice as much...
...Donated to the city just for the joy of it by CBS Board Chairman William S. Paley, 65, it is only 42 ft. wide and 100 ft. deep, yet Paley Park offers pooped passers-by a respite at little white tables and chairs in a setting of geraniums, honey locust trees, and a 20-ft. waterfall whose roar all but drowns out the yowl of city traffic. Paley opened his $1,000,000 oasis, last occupied by the Stork Club, with no ceremony other than allowing his mother, Mrs. Samuel Paley, to push the button that started the waterfall...
...women make the most careful watchers. They know that the locust will be the last to lose its leaves, that its red will last nearly to Christmas. The women will not see the tree stripped, nor will they see the children who sled down the steps when snow fills some of the spaces; but the library caretakers and guards will take note and tell the women in the spring. All this pleases them. They are saddened only when the rain drives them from the steps or tourists pushing baby carriages ask that they move so this or that view will...
...Samuel Paley, who died in 1963. The $1,000,000 plaza, which is to be completed this summer, will be New York's first midtown "waistcoat" park, and the first privately endowed public park in the city. Designed by Zion, it will feature a canopy of 24 intertwined locust trees, individual chairs and a kiosk for sandwiches and soft drinks. Mirrors on the side walls will add a feeling of depth, and a sheet of water cascading over the entire length of the back wall will help drown out some of the city noises. "An immensely creative and stunning...
Author Blankfort, who has a daughter and three grandchildren now living in Israel, has poured his heart into Behold the Fire, his eighth novel. His prose at times is hauntingly Biblical. His description of Jewish farmers battling a locust swarm is so vividly and sparely done that the reader can all but feel the crunch of the crawling vermin underfoot. And his protagonists, growing almost against their will to withstand stresses they never imagined, will not be easy to forget...