Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other new work is a loving exercise in Russian nostalgia: a Balanchine version of the old story-telling Nutcracker, with music by Tchaikovsky, sugarplum fairies, and a Christmas tree as big as Balanchine can fit on to the stage. The Nutcracker will take a full evening, and provide 35 children's roles for youngsters of Balanchine's ballet school. Central theme of Nutcracker: food...
...price of cocoa, has been mainly responsible for the rise in the overall Dow-Jones commodity index, which last week was the highest in three years. The cocoa rise was caused not only by increased demand and bad weather but by the "Swollen Shoot" (a virus disease) cocoa-tree blight in Africa. As the price went from 30? to almost 60? a lb. in a year, the Government considered releasing some of its vast stocks of butter to users of cocoa butter for candy, but gave up the idea, since butter's low melting point would make it impractical...
...SECOND TREE FROM THE CORNER (253 pp.)-E. B. White-Harper...
...Second Tree from the Corner, a sampling of his New Yorker pieces, is "a dog's breakfast," according to White-short stories, parodies, poems, essays, table talk-some of it funny, some of it scary, almost none of it dull...
...leaves on the tree of evil that are dangerous, but its roots," said controversial Father Marcos. "I am striking at the roots. The leaves will fall by themselves...