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Word: phlox (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bechstein's girlfriend, Phlox, works in a library. Bechstein's boyfriend, Arthur, works in the same library. At one point, Bechstein confronts both of them, and offers: "I love you, Phlox. And I love you, Arthur." For as long as he is able--and Phlox and Arthur make it increasingly difficult--Bechstein straddles the sexual fence...

Author: By Mark T Brazaitas, | Title: A Novel About Pittsburgh? | 4/23/1988 | See Source »

...Bechstein, the summer is like a canvas on which he can apply the colors of his passions and peculiarities. First, he meets Arthur. Then Arthur introduces him to Phlox and Cleveland. Soon, he comes in contact with a world he had barely scraped the surface of in his early years: his father's world. Pittsburgh--smoke-filled and grim--serves as an an appropriate counterpoint to Bechstein's colorful journey...

Author: By Mark T Brazaitas, | Title: A Novel About Pittsburgh? | 4/23/1988 | See Source »

...genteel, too proper to be the American symbol. Much better the rangy sunflower or the homespun black-eyed Susan. "Most of the beautiful roses we cherish are European roses," said Stanwyn Shetler of the National Museum of Natural History, who testified against the rose and advocated, instead, the phlox. Moreover, like many homegrown American products, the new symbol is prey to foreign infestation, the rose's principal enemy being the Japanese beetle. Despite a few cavils, there seems little doubt that President Reagan will sign the bill. Being a master of the symbolic gesture, Reagan will surely do the honors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gertrude Stein Was Wrong | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...might see that a couple of the spoons came from a head shop in Hollywood). The house held dried ferns, wicker furniture, an odd assortment of rocking chairs, a hand-turned oak banister, framed advertisements from long ago, framed pictures of flowers from National Geographies of the 1920s-phlox, gentian, evening primrose, wintergreen, bird's-foot violet and figwort-little bottles, ancient mirrors, failing philodendrons, warmth, pleasantness and no guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Vermont: Keeping Up with Keeping Inns | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

...MANY PEOPLE, know what juneberries look like for that matter, the number of people who can tell frogs from roads, warblers from thrushes, phlox from foxglove or blue maidens from dragonflies is relatively small. These and similar things fill the lengthy passages in early Lawrence or Hardy novels the passages which are the first ones skipped in the laziness of "leisure" reading. People at all conversant with the facts of the natural world tend not to display their knowledge, and we are far more likely to walk into a discussion about more conventionally sensational topics like politics...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: A Keen Eye, A Pure Voice | 4/20/1982 | See Source »

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