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Under a special arrangement with the City of Boston, Harvard leased the arboretum lands in 1882 for a term of 999 years at an annual rent of $1. Part of the agreement is that the gardens be open to the public every day of the year from sunrise to sunset. The living collections are supplemented by an herbarium and library for the study of plants under cultivation all over the world...
...convene next month to select their candidate for the 1965 West German Parliamentary elections, they are expected to nominate the freshest whiff of springtime that ever wafted up the Rhine from Cologne: Konrad Adenauer, 89. Der Alte has been telling cronies that his idea of a hobby for those sunset years would be a back bench of the Bundestag for the term that ends...
...Hartford obviously means well. He emerges from his book as a nice, slightly baffled man, who can appreciate a sunset, deplore the dehumanization of our modern environment, and feel real concern about man's fate. It's too bad that his book contains so much hystericism, so many contradictions, that readers will probably dismiss even his valid observations...
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (RCA Victor), recorded by the Broadway cast, has warm, old-fashioned songs by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. Zero Mostel, as Sholom Aleichem's earthy innocent, Tevye the Dairyman, brightens whatever he sings-the reverent Sabbath Prayer, the nostalgic Sunrise, Sunset, and the wonderful intoxicated gibberish of If I Were a Rich...
...searching, he says, for a new kind of life, for a creature that will bear his name and make him in some sense immortal. All day the solitary figure (Eiji Okada) moves among the moving sands, but he does not find what he is seeking. At sunset a stranger appears, a man at home in the desert, and leads him to a deep...