Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...step from presenting Gilbert and Sullivan to presenting opera is a difficult and admirable one, and the Student Fellowship at the local Congregational Church deserves full credit for a generally successful production of A Tree on the Plains. For the folk opera, librettist Paul Horgan has fashioned a somewhat naive but effective story about farmers in the American Southwest, and the music by Ernst Bacon is simple, combining hymntunes, folk and popular styles into a pleasant conglomeration...
...hangs over a precipice by his teeth, which are clenched in the branch of a tree. His hands are full and his feet cannot reach the face of the precipice. A friend leans over and asks him, 'What is Zen?' What answer should the man make...
Smiley (London Films; 20th Century-Fox), made in Australia, describes the adventures of an Australian Tom Sawyer named Smiley Greevins (Colin Petersen), with more backblocks yabber than you'll hear from a gum tree full of galahs. Wants a bike, that joey, and you can bet the creeping bent he'll bottom on the gold. He gives up his lollies and embarks on a course of hard yacker for the local John, Sergeant Flaxman (Chips Rafferty). He even swings a government stroke or two for the amen-snorter (Ralph Richardson), bonzer old dag that...
...Time. In Corfu, N.Y., town fathers were trying to replace a policeman, school-crossing guard, water-system operator, snowplow driver, tree trimmer, refuse collector, meter reader and general maintenance man after Leonard J. Gardner quit his $3,225-a-year town job to go to work in a tool and die works...
...circular, 6,000-seat auditorium and convention hall. Finally, as a bow to modern, motorized living, the new Center will have underground parking for 5,000 cars, and since the buildings will take up only 30% of the site, the entire project will be landscaped with tree-shaded plazas and malls, reflecting pools, fountains and sculpture...