And Henri Bendel has filled its holiday peace-theme windows with quirky stuffed dolls wearing disco-inspired peace-sign necklaces (above, $18).
Live guitar music still warbles from street corners, tie-dyed t-shirts are hawked by the handful, the smell of pot permanently wafts, colorful peace signs adorn windows of businesses like the Red Victorian Bed & Breakfast -- institutions better suited to an earlier time.
'A window for peace' "Today's events show the huge demand that exists for peace in Afghanistan," said the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, Kai Eide, in his Peace Day message.
If a person can take control for 30 minutes of his day, it could be a small window of peace and contentment even if it negatively affects his health.
Our situation is much less morally clear-cut than it was in 1968; hanging peace flags out the window is not a meaningful response to the terrorist threat or to a nation attempting to find its way out of tyranny and chaos.
In his essay, James Traub suggests to his son that "hanging peace flags out the window is not a meaningful response to the terrorist threat or to a nation attempting to find its way out of tyranny and chaos" (The Way We Live Now, Aug. 29).
Without this window of peace, historians argue, smallpox might not have been conquered there.
After we evacuated every last inch of Gaza, Hamas refused to let Israel's gesture open a window for peace.
When I saw a man in a camouflage baseball cap flashing the peace sign out the window of his gigantic pickup truck, I thought about how we are more similar than different, more aligned than apart.
"A window for peace has been opened, through which the people of Afghanistan are making themselves heard.
