Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Filipinos, working on G.I.s and tourists, hold up huge bouquets or pieces of fruit while working on wallets in the visitors' hip pockets." ¶"Korean children extend cheap dolls to travelers on departing trains; as they bargain, the kids break the watch straps on the outstretched arms...
...meeting, members heard about chances to work as fruit-pickers this summer under a program sponsored by the Cuban government and national SDS. The meeting also approved two resolutions, one demanding that Harvard expel ROTC, the other saying that the Corporation should not drive working-class Cambridge residents from their homes...
...major ethnic group. What made it all work was the Tunku's Alliance coalition, in which Malay, Chinese and Indian parties participated. But for some time the Chinese and Indians had feared that eventually they would be pushed out as laws favoring Malays for schools and jobs bore fruit...
...first fruit of that freedom was Pale Fire. Spectacularly unread, it made no concessions to popular tastes while proving that a genius can write a brilliant novel consisting of a 999-line poem and scholarly comment on it. The book is a wintry, touching parable concerning two of Nabokov's persistent themes?the feeling of being unloved and the horror of willfully inflicted pain. Pale Fire elicited the high-water mark of Nabokov's critical acceptance. Perhaps the most perfect tribute came from Mary McCarthy, a critic rarely given to generosity or overstatemeat: this work, "half poem, half prose...
...program. Regan is very eager to change all this. He talked enthusiastically yesterday about two thing: raising funds and organizing some fall activity. He wants to start a mailing campaign to Harvard alumni who have played lacrosse in an effort to stir up some interest which might bear financial fruit. This appears to be the only way that the team will be able to get the money it so sorely needs...