Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BACK-TO-NATURE "MODERN" tries to make the outdoors "a mere appendage to gracious living." Tree trunks serve as tables and the house looks like a quarry. "One of the major problems of the builder [used to be] the removal of boulders from the site. Now his difficulty is to find enough boulders." Picture windows are designed for "perpetual daylight; in reality, the owner discovers there is night [which] turns him and his family into ghosts in a cavern of black, shining glass . . . Put up blinds [and the results] resemble an airport closed for the night...
...scene was an old-fashioned Christmas party, decked out with a tall tree, stacks of packages wrapped in red ribbon-and twelve children (from Balanchine's School of American Ballet) tumbling about the stage in colorfully costumed tumult. Then, when the last guest had gone, and Clara, the little daughter of the house, had sunk into a Christmas night dream, the grownups took over. In Act II came the company's stars, one after the other, to dance through Clara's dream. Among them were Maria Tallchief as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Nicholas Magallanes as her Cavalier...
Balanchine had also stuffed his show with property magic. As Clara watched through dreaming eyes, the family Christmas tree began to grow onstage, heaving itself up out of the floor branch by bigger branch until its top disappeared in the flies. The window of the room broadened and heightened until the scene passed through it, outdoors into a snow-smothered pine forest, and a realistic blizzard of white confetti blew on the Snowflake Waltz. When the curtain fell, first-nighters broke into happy, rousing applause. After a dozen curtain calls for the cast, Choreographer Balanchine came out for a slightly...
...Spur Cabin, occupied by some members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club, its owner. Their letter says "The final irony of fate is that he died just a few yards beyond (our) Spur Cabin . . ."The path leading some 75 yards form the trail to this cabin is marked only by tree blazes (which are as good as invisible at night) but is indicated by no sign whatever. There is but ONE sign of which I know that indicates the way to the H.M.C. cabin, and that sign is located at the base of the mountain. By contrast; other shelters near...
...high-school boy who longed to shoot the ornaments off a Christmas tree was taken to the police pistol range, where an ornamented tree was set up for a target...