Word: ripening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...benefit auction in Los Angeles for the "Neighbors of Watts," Norton Simon, the millionaire art collector and philanthropist, plunked down a cool $23,000 for Ripening, a drybrush watercolor of two tomatoes on a weatherworn windowsill. "Fantastic," glowed the artist, Actor Henry Fonda, who had donated the watercolor to the auction. "Norton and Jennifer [Norton's wife, Actress Jennifer Jones] phoned my wife Shirlee the day after the auction to say how pleased they are with the painting. Norton said: Tell Henry that's not the way to ripen tomatoes-on a windowsill...
...said one judge. "Things like that have to be straightened out quickly." Yet even when the Justices have an obvious conflict between circuit courts to resolve, or an overwhelmingly important constitutional question to decide, there is often a tendency to delay, to be cautious, to allow the controversy to ripen. "We benefit greatly from the wisdom of the circuit courts," says the same judge. "Even when I'm inclined to hear a novel case, I often vote to deny just so we can get more input, more perspective from the lower courts...
...Crimson coach said that he was still not really satisfied with Harvard's performance, because his squad still hasn't rounded into the forms that he would like to see. "We're not yet mature," Marion said. "I want us to ripen a little more...
...United States was founded on a complaint. It was, as the framers of the Declaration of Independence were at pains to point out, a reasonable complaint, and one that took time to ripen: "All experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses . . ." That complaint got action. In fact, in an adversary proceeding that is the essence of democracy, every election poses a complaint and offers a remedy of sorts. This process of criticism...
...This will show you that I am not an old baboon, grumpy, with old-fashioned hobbies. I have gone through a lot of things the hard way, and I have had to learn that life is not a dreamy bowl of cherries, and that only experience can ripen a man and bring him to his senses...