Word: tree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walls of St. George's Greek Orthodox Church for sanctuary. From St. George's terrace, Father Moussa Khoury points out the only glow visible in the valley below. It comes from Qiryat Shemona, the Israeli town 13 miles away. Looking at the silhouette of a giant oak tree near the terrace, Father Khoury reflects: "It's been here for a thousand years, they say. But then so have we. And here we stay...
Skala, unlike the larger and important town of Smyrna, was entirely deserted, and Seferis's childhood flickered on its broken facade. He tried to capture it whole in the form of a huge plane tree--but it had died. He looked for it in his initials scratched on a wall, but he couldn't find them anymore. Irretrievable roots...He left for the last time, a seafarer...
...style. She takes "completely accidental failures on the Polaroid" and mounts and shows them anyway. She has begun to experiment with using two or three negatives for one print. Of one of these experiments, a self-portrait done two years ago that superimposes her crossed hands on a rotting tree-trunk, she says, "Let people worry about it. They need to worry about something...
...Well, I think it was the right thing to do." Then the President went to the Burning Tree Club to play a round of golf with his old friend Melvin Laird...
Quartered in a Tudor-style stone mansion rising improbably above surrounding frame houses and tree-lined streets, the foundation was established by the late Mabel Wagnalls Jones in honor of her parents, Adam W. Wagnalls, a Lithopolis boy who co-founded the Funk & Wagnalls publishing firm in 1877, and his wife Anna. When Mabel Jones died in 1946, she bequeathed $2.5 million to provide scholarships for any and all Bloom Township youths who could complete four years at one of the two high schools in the area and wanted to go on to higher education. Today the fund...