Word: sweetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Circus Minimus. Bill's clients, mainly young English, Australian and American couples, listen while he reminisces about how he introduced the late Sultan of Johore to the sweet mysteries of bourbon whisky, nod politely when Bill pontificates about modern pop music. Rock 'n' roll and all that jazz, he says, are "just a rehash of the old stuff, what used to be the Texas Tommy, the Bunny Hug and the Grizzly Bear...
Main attraction is the array of plants, set on benches of graduated heights so that children or adults, in wheelchairs or standing, can work at them. There the children will grow bougainvillaea to climb a trellis. They will use other trellises for grapes, tomatoes, peas and sweet peas. Children learning to use artificial hands have already set out young plants that can take rough handling...
Courtney led an active social life. He seemed to like girls and they reciprocated. "He was somewhat simple," one of his 'girls' remembers, "but awfully sweet. He seemed very much like my little brother." It is reported that Courtney often entertained party gatherings for hours with his antics. He served a year as president of the Young Republicans for Landon and thereafter retired from politics. For four years he took dancing lessons, but his instructor merely remembers that he was "clumsy...
...these simple poems which for some reason don't quite come off; one which vaguely tries to describe the creative process, somewhat like MacLeish's Ars Poetica, and is similarly feeble, and another which uses love and the sand and the sea to point out a slightly commonplace bitter-sweet moral...
...cites the exurbanite foible of Sunday painting to illustrate the prevalence of artiness and to point to the decline of judgment. In a democratic society, a do-it-yourself canvas proves sincerity, if not taste. But sincerity is no substitute for Intellect. Thus, Tough Teacher Barzun records that a sweet girl graduate student burst into tears when he gave her a failing grade because she did not write good like a girl graduate should. It had never happened to her before...