Word: flower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...community is an ad hoc thing: it is suspicious of institutions and wary of organization, prizing freedom above system. In this, as in many other ways, the youth of Bethel displayed adherence to the prevailing spirit of the hippie movement. It is true enough that the manifestation of flower power in Haight-Ashbury and the East Village became a bad scene of gang rapes, deaths from malnutrition and too much speed. It is equally true that most of those at Bethel were not hippies in the commonly accepted sense: a good half of them, at least, were high school...
...decreeing that a song be written and performed for the occasion. The President himself approved the menu right down to the clair de lune dessert, a sphere of ice cream topped with a tiny American flag. Pat Nixon personally okayed the table decorations, which included gold napkins and cloths, flower centerpieces and twinkling five-pronged candelabra. The state dinner for the astronauts was held the farthest ever afield from Washington; it was the costliest (about $50,000) and the biggest of all time (1,440 guests, v. the 140 normally accommodated in the White House State Dining Room...
...visions of Sidney Greenstreet-Peter Lorre North African thrillers. The ersatz locale is painfully obvious. "Justine," wrote Cyril Connolly, "is the spirit of Alexandria, sensual and skeptical, self-torturing and passionate." Cukor and his collaborators have raided Durrell's exotic garden and left only a pale hothouse flower...
...CACTUS FLOWER'S bachelor dentist gets an assistant for his love intrigues at Falmouth, Mass., Aug. 4-9 with Barry Nelson; Plymouth, Mass., Aug. 18-23; Charlotte, N.C., Aug. 12-16; Nyack, N.Y., Aug. 18-23; Hendersonville, Tenn., through Aug. 24; East Hampton, L.I., Aug. 25-30; and Cooperstown, N.Y., Sept...
HADDONFIELD, N.J. Camden County Music Fair. A bachelor dentist keeps himself from being trapped by telling his mistress that he is married; then when she wants to meet the wife, he puts his nurse through the drill of filling the part in Cactus Flower, a farce that stars Hugh O'Brian and Sheila MacRae...