Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anyone might have been expected to leave a watertight will, it was Arthur S. Kruse of Grand Haven, Mich. A retired insurance executive, he devoted the last years of his life to passionate study of his own family tree. Indeed, when he died aboard a Greyhound bus in Pennsylvania last March at the age of 67, Kruse was homeward bound from a genealogical mission to the New York Public Library. He had good reason to have given considerable thought to his probable heirs. When a Grand Haven bank opened his safe-deposit box after his death, it found securities worth...
...themselves lacing one last formidable obstacle, a tax bill to encourage foreign investment in the U.S. It had already passed the House, and the proposal itself was no serious problem. But it was loaded with so many assorted amendments (24 in all) that it was laughingly labeled "the Christmas tree bill." Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore opposed one amendment that would allow taxpayers to allocate $1 or $2 of their taxes to a Government-operated presidential campaign fund. He threatened to call for a quorum count of the Senate, in the knowledge that it was impossible to find...
...Apple Tree has brought forth three moldy figs: a musical trio of satirical skits starring Barbara Harris and Alan Alda. Good satire is a difficult form of pertinent irreverence. Flabby satire, with tired targets like Tree's, is unearned derision full of cartoon comedy and plop...
...myth of Director Mike Nichols, invulnerable up to now, has been that he could bust a comic rib with an onionskin script, but The Apple Tree is too thin for even his nimble touch. While Barbara Harris is as saucily mocking as ever, it becomes clearer with each performance that she is more of a zany caricaturist and mimic than she is an actress. She can do instant impersonations of people and moods, but except for her 1962 performance in Oh Dad, Poor Dad, she has never developed a character. In the past, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick have written...
Krishnamurti described looking at a leaf (most quasi-philosophers usually aim at larger objects like a tree, but our man was being more selective). "While looking at a leaf my attention is distracted by other images which flash through my mind," he said. By following these images to their conclusion, Krishnamurti clears his mind of the day's debris and returns to the leaf with all his powers of concentration. He is convinced that if a man did this with every idea which crossed his mind during the day, he would have explored everything in his unconscious. He would have...