Word: plum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, typifies the new mobility better than lithe, mod Ozawa. Last week, at 36, Ozawa grabbed off one of the biggest plums in American orchestral life: the august, auburn-sounding Boston Symphony, which he will take over in 1973. Since he already has another juicy plum in hand as conductor of the San Francisco Symphony and has no plans to give it up, Ozawa has instantly become one of the most powerful and busy men in American music...
That event, however, seems a remote calamity. As he celebrated his 90th birthday and the publication of his 90th-odd book last week, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse-known as "Plum" to his friends and "Plummie" to Ethel, his wife of 57 years-was still in good form, working on a new novel and surrounded by the inevitable dogs and cats in his house at Remsenburg, a serene little town on Long Island's south shore...
That range, in fact, has sent the manufacturers into an orgy of name giving. Charles Revson has come up with such goodies as Baby Biscuit and Raisins for his Etherea line. Estée Lauder has picked Coffee Brandy and Ginger Brandy for her nail polishes and Ripe Plum for her blushers. On the theory that a French phrase or two is equally intoxicating, Christian Dior has countered with Chataigne Doré eye shadow and Brume de Rose lipstick...
...Plum Branch...
...readers, boys especially, find the books a drag. What drama there is comes from the constant onslaughts of nature. Beginning in the Wisconsin forests. Laura, her sisters and their parents trek west by wagon into Kansas (Little House on the Prairie), then up to Minnesota (On the Banks of Plum Creek") and finally west again to South Dakota, beset along the way by grasshopper plagues, blizzards, rivers in spate and midsummer droughts that "cook the grains in the milk." Treated with a minimum of sentimentalizing (less and less in the later books, which are progressively directed toward slightly older readers...