Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LEARNING TREE, by Gordon Parks. Like Author Parks, the young hero of this first novel grew up in the Negro end of a small Kansas town. His unabashed nostalgia for what was good there, blended with some sharp recollections of violence and stark fear, makes a readable, sometimes unsettling book...
...THEY SHOOK THE PLUM TREE, Lewis...
...four-letter genetic code that carries the information that tells a fertilized cell to develop into a man or a pine tree is now the subject of avid research all over the world. In spite of optimistic announcements, the code has not yet been broken, and no great progress toward breaking it was reported at The Hague...
...LEARNING TREE by Gordon Parks. 303 pages. Harper...
Anyone who thinks he has read all this before will be right. But no one should therefore write off Gordon Parks's The Learning Tree as just another fictional recollection of an all-American boyhood. For Newt Winger is a Negro. His graduation ceremony is segregated, and the defeated bully (another Negro) is driven to his death by a white cop. His brother-in-law is a dangerous drunk who loads a shotgun whenever he gets loaded himself, and blazes away at the sky shouting "I'm gonna blow the ass off Jesus Christ, the long-legged white...