Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carmel, N.Y. studio one winter morning in 1939, a harried artist packed a portrait into his station wagon and headed for Manhattan. As the car slithered down the slippery lane, one of the doors jounced open and snagged a roadside pine. The door was left behind dangling on the tree as the car sped...
Long before Darwin made the same claim for the whole human race, the fierce Dafia tribesmen of India's northeast frontier were proudly claiming descent from monkeys. To prove it, they wore false tails, swung happily among tree branches, screeched wildly in apelike imitation of Kipling's Bandar-log and grubbed under stones and logs for beetles which they ate whole and kicking...
Kraft TV Theater (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., ABC). John Galsworthy's The Apple-Tree...
Last week Pianist Kapell. 31. took off in a British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines DC-6 for the long flight home. Eight thousand miles later, letting down for an instrument landing at San Francisco, the big ship clipped a fog-concealed tree, crashed headlong into the side of a mountain ravine. Among the 19 who died in the flames was William Kapell...
...architecture is mainly a matter of blocks and boxes. His own buildings derive from the organic constructions of nature. Wright once designed an extraordinarily efficient column after studying the structure of morning glories, and his skyscraper now going up in Bartlesville, Okla. is built on the principle of a tree. "The only safe precedent," Wright likes to say, "is principle...