Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...named Abe Ribicoff be nominated for governor in this state." In a TV appearance the week before the election, Ribicoff made an American Dream speech in which he recalled how, as a boy, he would "walk through fields heavy with the smell of summer growth, lie under a tree and dream . . . that any boy, through hard work, honesty and integrity, could aspire to any position in American life and reach any heights regardless of race, creed or color." This appeal had its effect. More effective, perhaps, was the fact that Lodge had angered some powerful G.O.P. county leaders...
...them Les Fauves-"Wild Beasts." Never since the Dark Ages (when artist-monks symbolized reality, instead of trying to counterfeit it, in their illuminations) had painters used colors so arbitrarily. Matisse's colors were the brightest he could buy, brushed in flat and separated by dancing lines. A tree might be turquoise or tangerine, a river russet, a girl gold, with green hair...
...English government also claims that Cyprus has been dependent on it for economic aid, and that continued support is necessary. But the Cypriots are little impressed by Britain's mosquito killing program and tree planting; they want freedom. All the arguments launched by the British, in fact, have been dashed against the rock of Cyprus' national sentiment...
...well if not better than the most successful house plan. After all, Harvard and Yale had more students and stood in the midst of bustling cities. What need had Princeton to divide its compact undergraduate life when everyone lived five minutes walk from everyone else on a green, tree-covered campus...
...breaks boy. The codes are Boston and family, club and army. After a bout of spiritual beachcombing, the slightly disenchanted heroes generally return to pukka grace. Boston is the city Marquand almost hates to love, but love it he must-though he is not above shaking his own family tree for laughs. Most of the fiction was written for big-circulation magazines, and even the better tales are apt to swerve from the winding lanes of art to the happy-ending highways of commerce. The best of the lot, Merry Christmas, All, starts as a rasping Yuletide battle...