Word: valley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate floor, one member of the club after another rose to pay wholehearted tribute to the colleague who had arrived in 1922, when Vice President Coolidge was presiding. As a moderate from the Deep South, Walter George had fought strenuously for his principles (anti-Ku Klux Klan, pro-Tennessee Valley Authority, anti-Franklin Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court). Connecticut's Republican Senator Prescott Bush said he hoped that he might some day command the kind of respect that prompted George's wife always to call him "Mr. George." Rolled into the Senate chamber...
Peace in Cloud Valley. Born in the small farming hamlet of Akahama in 1420, young Oda Toyo entered a Zen Buddhist temple at twelve. According to popular legend, he was a wayward boy, overfond of drawing. Tied to a wooden pillar as corrective discipline, he at first wept copiously, says legend, stopping only when his tears made a pool on the floor which he used as ink, with his toes for brushes. Oda Toyo's talent was early recognized and fostered, including apprenticeship to the painter Shubun, the leading practitioner of Chinese-style paintings of his day. Not until...
Pavilion with a View. Once at home again, Sesshu turned down the position of court painter to devote the rest of his life to painting in his Cloud Valley retreat and wandering through northern Kyushu, building landscape gardens, writing verse, and painting. When he happened on a particularly striking landscape, he built a "Pavilion of Heaven-Opening Picture," lingered there until he had exhausted the view...
...before it, for there is a good deal that needs to be swept. The small human story with the wise human moral that Sidney Howard, in They Knew What They Wanted, neatly packed into one room has been wildly scattered and in places quite submerged all over the Napa Valley countryside. For all that is folkish in Fella, something plaintively simple is missing; as there is sentiment and to spare but no pervasive current of emotion. For in excess of any proper musical's quota, Fella has been choked up, and in places even hoked up with rustic razzle...
...market, people are no longer satisfied with yesterday's dominolike housing developments. Location and landscaping have become vital. In Southern Cali fornia's Orange County, long one of the state's boomingest areas, thousands of houses are going begging, while developments in the San Fernando Valley are still a sellout. One big reason is that Orange County is becoming heavily industrialized; people would rather live in pleasant, factory-free surroundings even though they may have to drive 30 miles to work. The story is the same in Atlanta, where builders are discovering that prospective buyers flock...