Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beatles' music and is similarly admired by them, says that he "was trying to catch them as they are at present. They have moved on since Sgt. Pepper-the drug thing -to the meditation scene." Notable among the flowers, all of which are real, is the rose held by Paul, who told Scarfe that the Beatles' own guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, once gave him a rose with this parable: "Here are the petals of the rose. Here is the stalk of the rose. But none of these is the real rose. The real rose...
...listed on the American Stock Exchange, reported a 47% gain in earnings last year; the price of its stock jumped from 91 to 41 at one point during the spring surge. Levin-Townsend's earnings climbed mightily in the fiscal year ended in March, and its stock price rose from 12 at the end of December to as high...
...games with herself such as How Can That Be?, in which she makes up an impossible situation, asks herself "How can that be?" and is disappointed if she cannot concoct a way it could be. She is unable to explain, for instance, why "an upside-down-speedboat made of rose petals was in orbit around the moon...
Michel is a seven-year-old French Jewish orphan whose father died in a concentration camp; his mother swallowed cyanide to avoid being sent to one. During the war, a daring band of nuns spirits him to safety in a nursery run by Mile. Odette Rose, who has Michel baptized, and after the war refuses to give him up to his aunt and uncle in Palestine. Her battle is joined by the French Catholic Church up to the level of cardinal. In fighting assorted Zionists, the Catholics revert to their underground railway, but what was heroism in wartime...
Author Lewis unvaryingly places law and truth on the side of the Jews, though he dedicates the book "to my Catholic wife." He never animates Michel's character, never lets the child himself choose between Mile. Rose and his Israeli relatives. Instead, Jewish characters talk endlessly about history and suffering, Catholics indulge in petty lies and machinations. One Jewish character says wisely: "Better he be a good French Catholic than a neurotic Israeli Jew," but only one priest knows right from wrong. Though modeled on St. Peter, he proves to be papier-mache instead of rock...