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...story-and no film-better reveals Lawrence's moral absolutism than The Virgin and the Gypsy. Between its narrow boundaries is sown the seed of the Lawrentian canon-the familial conventions, the social hypocrisies, the annealing force of sex. The time is the '20s and the maiden is Yvette (Joanna Shimkus), who steps backward from French finishing school to her father's claustrophobic vicarage in northern England. The old authorities are reasserted, and Yvette is briefly cowed by her hectoring, rectoring father (Maurice Denham) and his priggish relatives. But there is a new spirit...
...last large watercolors, handsomely illuminating Burchfield's special gifts. Sweeping views and majestic scenery were not his forte. Rather, he marveled at nature's moods, the songs of crickets and cicadas, the sound of the wind in the telegraph wires, the intricate structure of a dandelion seed ball. In his view, weeds were as precious as flowers, trees had faces, houses eyes, and in their lanky, saggy way cornstalks could almost be seen to dance...
...Seed Money. A political and economic conservative, Mellon displayed a strong social conscience that showed itself in deeds rather than words. He was the prime force behind the rebuilding projects that converted downtown Pittsburgh from a tangle of blackened buildings to an area of gleaming skyscrapers in largely smoke-free air. The Mellon family's money has seeded slum-rebuilding programs and efforts to open jobs and business opportunities for blacks. For years Pittsburghers said, only half-jokingly, that Pennsylvania's late Governor David Lawrence, who was a power in the national Democratic Party, owed his prominence...
...ahead 80% at Discount Fabrics Inc., a chain in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Just as women are sewing their own clothes, they are also growing their own food. Manhattan apartment dwellers are planting tomatoes in boxes on their terraces. Oregon's Chas. H. Lilly Co., a seed wholesaler, reports that an unexpected run on corn, beans and squash has all but depleted supplies. "You get the feeling," says Proprietor Walter Zenner, "that the people are determined to beat the high cost of living even if it means getting their fingers dirty...
...famine in which we all live will last a long time," Riesman said. "To burn the seed corn is a mistake...