Word: forest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once upon a time there was a Class of 1952, and it lived in the Forest of the Yard, and it lived and it worked and it played much in the manner of all the freshman classes that had gone before. And the deeds of this class were to be written up in a great book called the Red Book, and all this was as it should...
...Like It is now tried again, and for a while does nicely. Its gaily dressed figures, prettily painted landscapes and well-sung songs give it rather the graceful air of a masque. The quickly shifting scenes at the start give it movement. But once it enters the Forest of Arden, where the scenery stays put and the story refuses to, the charm wears ever more thin. All the world loves a lover, but not everybody loves eight in one play-particularly when they include Audrey and Touchstone and Phebe and Silvius with their prattle, their puns and their depressing high...
...Into the Forest. The guards never caught on. One reason: the thud of landing vaulters blanketed any vibrations from the digging which might have been picked up by the Germans' detecting devices. One October afternoon the two diggers, with a third man who had helped them, went down into their tunnel, more than 100 feet long. After scrambling out of the tunnel, they rolled into a ditch outside the camp, and then escaped into the nearby pine forest. Dressed in the clothing of French workmen, Peter and John caught the night train to Frankfurt, while their companion, disguised...
...historical romancer, whose rambling, bulky Anthony Adverse (2 ¾Ibs., 1,224 pp.), published when he was 44, brought him fame & fortune; of a heart attack; in Miami. Writer also of a major work on Poe (Israfel, 1926), Author Allen had completed before his death three volumes (The Forest and the Fort, Bedford Village, Toward the Morning) of a proposed pentalogy (The Disinherited) about colonial America...