Word: scarlet
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...afternoon the results of visiting Flower Arranger Sofu's harvest were ready for display in Paris' Bagatelle chateau. Withered leaves on a dead branch suspended from the ceiling had become a mobile titled Dance of the Dying Leaves; tiger lilies, hydrangeas and irises blended into a scarlet-and-gold Japanese Landscape; a moss-covered oak branch was part of a tableau, On the Edge of the Lake...
...daily papers are full of it. Bad kids. Burglary. Rape. Murder. The kids run in gangs. The Scarlet Cavaliers. The Shining Knights. They manufacture pistols, carry switchknives and use them. They are loyal to nothing except the gang. They rarely tell on each other. The reason for all this might be larger than children. In feudal law everyone was responsible for something. Every, member of the family was responsible for every other member. In the village this same responsibility obtained. If a child committed a crime his whole family was affected, even punished, and even if his father and mother...
...Seventh Heaven does have some reasonably lively dancing and some agreeable sentimental tunes. But it lacks production excitement: Hollywood's Gloria DeHaven and Ricardo Montalban make love seem pleasantly unmemorable, and no one makes sin very thrilling. Sin, in fact, is a good deal more lavendered than scarlet -the hotcha is mostly oo-la-la, the Paris mostly an old-fashioned Gay Paree. The last show of the season, Seventh Heaven might have wound up any season for the past 20 years...
...Rourke hopes public opinion will force substandard hospitals to upgrade themselves or shut down. "I wish it were possible," he added, "to hang a scarlet letter above the admission desk of every provisionally approved hospital in the U.S. and Canada. Nonaccreditation, by my standards, [is] criminal, while provisional accreditation marks a grave misdemeanor on the part of those responsible...
...massed band, from whose front line of trumpeters fluttered scarlet banners and golden tassels, struck up a martial air. Rain had canceled the air flypast, and Party Secretary Khrushchev, clad in a fawn raincoat and bright green hat, had stolen some of the show by escorting attractive Ekaterina Furtseva, a Moscow party official, to the podium. But now, after the trumpets, Zhukov, with all the pomp and ceremony which the occasion demanded, went to center stage to deliver the official speech...