Word: magnolia
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...Atheistic Unitarians." Nowhere is the struggle more bitter than in the swollen Magnolia School District of Anaheim, Calif., where the population has soared from 10,000 to 115,000 in a decade. In an atmosphere of raging partisan politics that has pitted Birchites and conservatives against anti-Birchites and liberals, the five-member school board has become an ideological football kicked back and forth by all sides...
...workers is the first real task of the Mississippi Summer Project for civil rights. While the detailed four-page application forms are examined by the staff in Jackson, Miss, SNCC workers throughout the South and North are interviewing each student who applies. And before those accepted actually enter the Magnolia State, they will attend orientation meetings in their local areas and an intensive four-day workshop, probably on a college campus. According to Dorothy Zellner, in charge of organizing in New England, "We want the most disciplined group of people we can possibly...
...vintage wine. One thing that especially endears the poet to his colleagues, however, is his fashionable fondness for antinomies -his perception that life is lived in impossible tension between unresolvable opposites. Ransom heroines die of "six spells of fever and six of burning." They have only to appear, magnolia fresh, on the piazza, and the rustle of death stirs in the wistaria trees. His lovers can find no rest, so tormented are they by such archaic inner struggles as lust v. honor, or passion v. philosophy. For his part, Ransom allows neither them nor the world any ease this side...
...bedroom and bath, with an old-fashioned wooden porch at the rear of the house, a second bedroom-bath and a large library with a fireplace. On the third floor are four more bed rooms and two baths. The front steps are flanked by a pair of 40-ft. magnolia trees nearly as old as the house. Out back is a flagstone terrace. On top of the house perches a cupola with a view of the Potomac. The house went on the market a year ago for $325,000, recently came down to around $190,000. Jackie reportedly...
Jackie's temporary home in Georgetown, built in 1805, was purchased by the Harrimans last spring from Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton for $165,000. It has seven bedrooms, a dining room to seat 18, and a block-long terraced garden with fine old English boxwood, magnolia trees and a swimming pool. There Jackie will be surrounded by the paintings of Cezanne, Matisse, Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec. Only three blocks away is the home where she lived for three years while her husband was a U.S. Senator...