Word: pollens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first of the Magi to see the Star of Bethlehem. His beauty is ideal; the painter shaped him to inspire. Seen at some distance, Caspar looms like a tower of onyx robed in slashed summer clouds. Peer closer; he becomes a full-lipped flower bitten by the sun, bleeding pollen...
Like other algae, Palmellococcus thrives on light, moisture, mineral salts and carbon dioxide. Yet when it can feed on such organic substances as sweat, pollen and bacteria-which were also brought into the grotto-it will multiply well even in dim light. If enough of these nutrients are present, it can survive without any light at all. In fact, it was this steady buildup of organic matter, Lefevre and Laporte say, that enabled Palmellococcus to proliferate even when the cave was shut down and left in total darkness...
Feuer finally judges student movements to be both destructive and self-destructive. "Parricide, regicide, and suicide"-so goes his sequence. He heaps blame on students for a lot more than just World War I. You name the issue; Feuer makes a tie-in. Fascism: Student Leader Karl Pollen and his dagger-wearing elitists "set back for a generation the liberal aspirations of the German people . . . The heritage of the German student movement of 1817 was transmitted to the Nazis." Communism: Russian students "stood back perturbed and bewildered," says Feuer, when the Bolshevik Revolution finally occurred...
...same sensitivities as his descendants. Writing in the monthly report of the French Prehistoric Society, Archaeologist Arlette Leroi-Gourhan described a cave on the Iraqi side of the Zagros Mountains where a 5-ft. 8-in. Neanderthal man was buried by his friends on a bier of wild flowers. Pollen from blossoms plucked 60,000 years ago in mourning for the unknown hunter came from primordial hyacinths, hollyhocks, and bachelor's buttons. Proving, no doubt, that the first men were also the first flower children...
...made from the pollen of the cannabis plant is fifty times more powerful than pot made from the stem," said Walters at the South House meeting on Thursday. "The pot around Harvard now," Munter told East House on Wednesday, "is from the top of the plant, and is stronger that what was around last year, which was made primarily from the stems...