Word: narcissuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...episode in the life of a mythological goat-man; he danced it (to Debussy's famed music) in horns, tail and dappled tights. Manhattan's Choreographer Jerome Robbins, 34, had a different idea. Last week the New York City Ballet presented the Robbins-version faun as a Narcissus rather than a goat-man; the title role went to a shirtless young ballet dancer in practice tights...
Bright, green, genuine spring warmed the South. Atlanta was abloom with narcissus, forsythia and bridal wreath. Pitchers sweated in baseball training camps from Florida to California. And Mobile held its annual Azalea Trail Parade...
Like all Adlerians, Dreikurs & Co. brush past the Freudian patter of hostility and rejection, Oedipus and Narcissus, and drive straight for the child's "private logic." Their argument: no matter how wacky the child's actions may seem to an adult, they are logical to the child if it is recognized that his own picture of the world around him governs his reactions. So the trick is to find out how he sees the world, how this makes him do what he does, and help him to feel secure without setting the rest of the family on edge...
...worst confused plant of the Bible is probably the rose. The flower mentioned in Isaiah 35:1 ("and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose") must have been a bulbous plant, probably a narcissus; the original Hebrew word for it means "bulb." Other "roses" were oleanders, anemones, tumbleweeds or crocuses. The biblical "Rose of Sharon" was not the modern rose of Sharon (a kind of hibiscus introduced from China), but probably a tulip...
...escape the bonds of the story and become a travelogue; his adolescents often seem remote from the local color through which they move. The nuances of the connection between character and background are not all caught--as they were in the production a few years ago of "Black Narcissus," the other of Miss Godden's novels to be filmed...