Word: willow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What will the Chinese be like when they get to the U.N.? When a Western reporter asked a Peking official that question, he got a ready answer: "We will follow the policy of 'the pine and the willow'?as firm as the pine on principles, as flexible as the willow on details." For the moment, the Chinese appeared to be all pine...
...many thousand canvases produced in the last 20 years have echoed the muscular writhing of brush marks, the suffusing, arbitrary color and the dense, pasty, almost edible pigment that Monet, in 1918, incorporated into The Willow? In a study of African lilies growing beside his pond, the "modernity" of Monet's vision becomes even more pronounced. There is no horizon line; the fragment of reality he chose tips and squashes itself against the picture plane. A whole historical style is predicted in the vibration and flicker of yellow light on the water, the excited scribbles round the lily pads...
...House in Minneapolis is exempt, but Nashville's assessor has denied exemption to similar publishing enterprises of Methodists, Baptists and Seventh-day Adventists. The Holiday Inns at Greenville and Boaz, Ala., pay no taxes because the municipalities own them. The University of Michigan earns a tidy income from Willow Run Airport, on which it pays no property taxes; Michigan State University's exempt holdings include a large department store in Lansing. Thanks to a charter exemption similar to that of Cooper Union, Northwestern University for years has enjoyed a steady stipend from a supermarket, a medical office center...
...Springtime in the Hub, time for long walks with your sweetheart, picnics under a flowing willow tree, or throwing a frisbec to and fro. These are the rites of Spring, which Mother Nature's children return to year after year...
...near at hand is no disaster. People keep busy, and perhaps cheerful. In a sheltered corner between two carts and an inn wall, somebody is playing a fiddle. Higher up the hillside a man and a woman stoop low over the dark earth, bundling willow shoots to make baskets (see detail, pages 54-55). A child in a crescent crown carries a lamp. His mother leans like a crumbled moon above. His father dances, drunkenly perhaps, clutching what seems to be pipes of Pan. But they are waffles, baked at carnival time (see detail, page...