Word: lushly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Siisskind; Bartok, 2 LPs). Music for a "dancing play" from the late Hungarian master's middle period. The plot: boy wants girl; fairy queen (in enchanted forest) thwarts boy; girl wants boy; boy bored. The music, completed in 1916, before Bartok had honed down his modernities, is as lush as Richard Strauss, as elegant as Debussy...
...surprising that the weakest of Wilde's works are those that reflect what he himself considered the weakest part of his character. Few of his poems pass muster today; they are the lush, overripe productions of a man who got "a curious joy" (a "kick" is the modern word; out of being "spendthrift of my own genius" and let himself "drift with every passion till my soul / Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play...
...Leader, at 67, is a prosperous breeder of Black Angus cattle and prize poultry. "Leader Leghorns'' are justly famed in eastern Pennsylvania: the two top egg-laying hens at the Harrisburg state egg-laying contest in 1953 and 1954 came from the lush, 500-acre Leader Farms, and Leader Angus cattle have been Grand Champions in the last four Reading fairs. Like most Yorkmen, Guy Leader learned his trade early. "It became my job to assist my mother with her flock of chickens,'' he recalls, "caring for setting hens, making coops from store boxes...
...Lush Windfall. Rhee chuckled with appreciation-but refused to budge from the, official rate of 180 hwan to $1. Thereafter, the Korean presses went on printing currency, and the value of the hwan dropped (on the black market) to 500 and even 750 to $1. Rhee himself showed what he. thought of the sanctity of the official rate by allowing the Bank of Korea to auction off a hoard of accumulated U.S. greenbacks (mostly to Korean importers). The prices paid were around 500 hwan to $1. Still Syngman Rhee would not change the official rate. His decision cost...
...which are separated by 1,000 miles of hostile India. West Pakistan is arid and Middle Eastern: its people eat wheat, speak Punjabi or Urdu, and supply most of the tough manpower for Pakistan's 250,000-man army and for its permanent civil service. East Pakistan is lush and Southeast Asian: its people eat rice, speak Bengali, and complain that they do not have the influence at Karachi to which their preponderant numbers entitle them. In local elections last March, the East Pakistanis rejected the national Moslem League leadership so thoroughly that the newly elected officials were thrust...