Word: cactus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...live to be 92 (so that he could claim as many years as a private citizen as in public life), turned 91. But that was too close to 92, so he has now raised his goal to an even century mark. To the usual wearisome questions about his longevity, "Cactus Jack" Garner gave an unlikely answer: it seemed to have something to do with his daily custom of eating grapefruit. But some citizens of his home town, Uvalde, Texas, suspect that Garner did not really give up his cigars and whisky last year, as he had dourly announced. No cigars...
This anguished quadrangle frames a landscape full of cactus and wild horses. Cowboy Blanding is a wild-horse wrangler on the side. He and some mercenary Indians trap mustangs and sell them for chicken feed. Business looks good when Blanding traps thousands of mustangs in a natural amphitheater; but he reckons without Stanley and Lark, who might have been the founding father and mother of the Walla Walla S.P.C.A...
...Tree ($475) by Hawaiian-born Abe Satoru and Missouri-born Carlus Dyer's Scintillation of Elements ($3,200) both vaguely recall nature in the form of tree or cactus. As sculpture, they aim to catch and diffuse light; at the same time they are as open and transparent as the skeleton skyscrapers or factories that modern man sees all about him. A sub division of the materials-first group is made up of those who derive their inspiration from the swirling intricacies of mathematical forms. Typical of these is the brass Column ($900) by Greek-born Stephanie Scuris...
...West Texas in 1924, when up-and-down Benedum was close to going broke, he drilled in the shade of a rig that had been blessed in the name of Saint Rita, saint of the impossible. The impossible area was a desert of dunes and cactus, 50 miles from water. On his ninth try there, he struck it; oil came roaring...
...basic form of the modern sagebrush saga: the strong, silent, shy and virtuous hero; the hard-drinking, materialistic villain; the pretty, intelligent schoolteacher-heroine; the cattle politics; the slow drawl, the fast draw; the long, wary walk down Main Street to a blazing finish. And Zane Grey, a cactus-happy New York dentist who wrote 54 western novels that sold more than 25 million copies, started the mass exploitation of the Wister formula that soon turned the western story into a beltline business. Only since World War II have the cliches been rescued by a serious set of younger writers...