Word: lush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stravinsky took three curtain calls. There were bravos for the tenor. A slight hissing was heard at the rear of the hall. Mostly, though, the audience didn't quite know what to think. "It is mind music," said one musician. An esthete put it precisely: "From the lush, full, rich sound we think of as Stravinsky, you are suddenly in an entirely different world-in a bony world...
...rising, though more slowly than a year ago. Already, values were 24% higher than before Korea. Most of the buyers were city folk, looking for a place to farm weekends and to erect a hedge against further inflation. Many of the sellers were estates or farmers overwhelmed by a lush offer far in excess of their property's value as a working enterprise. The one exception: big ranches in the Western grasslands, where steer prices have dipped about 7? a pound, now bring 20% less than a year ago. Farm real estate men like Don W. Reed of Painesville...
...Easy at 20." On view were paintings as rich and carefully tended as a French vegetable garden: romantic scenes of a tiny village huddled in the hills, a lush tree-carpeted mountainside, a sparkling bay near the artist's home at St. Tropez on the Riviera. All were drawn with consummate skill, lovingly done in muted greens, earthy browns and greys. Segonzac was pleased by the success of his new paintings. Said he: "It is easy to show traces of genius at the age of 20, but it is difficult to still have talent when...
...Butler's honestly stated mixture of good & bad news that got the biggest ovation at the conference. "Next year will be tougher than this year, for the party as well as for the country," he said. "I do not think this is a good year for lush promises...
...back of the truck, shouting into a microphone, was Roger A. Moore '53, patriarch of the Harvard Young Republican Club. He was extolling the virtues of Senator Nixon. The Senator, along with his wife and state Republican moguls, followed the State House to the speaker's platform in a lush new convertible...