Which phrase from the poem "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’” best describes how the water lilies are portrayed in this painting? “poisons the air like fallout” “The seen, the known / dissolve” “Today as the news from Selma and Saigon” “the serene great picture that I love”

What is most likely the speaker’s reason to open with this? in approaching this problem, we cannot turn the clock back to 1868, when the [fourteenth] amendment was adopted, or even to 1896, when plessy v. ferguson was written. we must consider public education in the light of its full development and its present place in american life throughout the nation. only in this way can it be determined if segregation in public schools deprives these plaintiffs of the equal protection of the laws.