Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Describing Alabama voters as deluded by "false hopes and promises they will all return to cotton plantations amid sweet magnolias and honeysuckle blooms," Flowers attributed Alabama's Republican support to a mistaken belief that Goldwater would not enforce integration legislation but would "maintain and improve Democratic social reform programs...
...pretends that everything is sweet harmony in Peru. Last week Belaúnde was embroiled in a major congressional fight over his 1965 budget, which runs $75 million more than this year's record. To avoid a deficit, Belaúnde wants to raise taxes; the opposition wants to leave taxes alone and slice the budget down to size. The result is likely to be a compromise. "Belaúnde is beginning to look like a statesman," says an opposition leader. "If we can only curb his tendency to spend more than he should, Peru may well have...
Fiddler is sweet in spirit, true in tone, and its shawled, long-skirted women and bearded, black-hatted men look more like folk than showfolk. Jerome Robbins' dances are closer to the soil than to concrete, and a male wedding dance with empty wine bottles perched on the men's hats is a tingling display of rigid torsos and agile Slavic slides...
...every style from 13th century Romanesque through Gothic and Tudor to Victorian. Somehow all the styles blend in a nobly ancient mix of ornate walls, curlicued towers, spires, domes and gables, archways, turrets, gargoyles and waterspouts. The atmosphere is that of a contemplative sanctuary, the world where Wordsworth recorded "Sweet Spenser, moving through his clouded heaven." Gowned scholars still mount gloomy stair wells to their dark, dank digs...
...keeping with the chief character, Bellow's prose is sometimes pudding-soft, mushy and too sweet; but at other times it is as good as anything he has written. In fact, where the novel does not limp, it moves majestically, as in a grimly tender description of the death of Herzog's mother. It is just that Bellow does not seem to be covering any new ground. Toward the end, Herzog reflects: "I look at myself and see chest, thighs, feet-a head. This strange organization, I know it will die. And inside -something, something, happiness . . . Something produces...