Word: tree
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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What is going on? Reporters stride through the quiet, tree-shaded boulevards for a rendezvous with the diplomats-the Australians and French, Russians and Americans, Israelis and Vietnamese. They meet in restaurants like the Café de Paris and Venice, and over rich red wine and Chateaubriand, served silently by white-coated Cambodian waiters, diplomats and reporters trade information. No one has the whole story. In Phnom-Penh, everyone is a gatherer of bits and pieces of information. "Did you hear?" the reporter asks, and then delivers a nugget of information to the diplomat. The diplomat reciprocates. They go their...
Premier Playboy. The son of a poor Javanese schoolteacher and a lovely Balinese dancer, young Sukarno was a standout from his childhood days near Surabaja; his desire to be the dominant figure in every gathering from tree climbing to stamp collecting, led to the nickname djago (rooster). Later, he earned a degree and turned to the budding independence movement. His ringing rhetoric so worried his country's Dutch rulers that they jailed him for two years and exiled him for another eight. He escaped early in World War II and collaborated with the Japanese in hopes of securing Indonesia...
...talked for a while about the war, and then he turned down the garden hose and laid it in a trough he had made around a lemon tree...
...dreamed of both New York and Cambridge. I was certain that in both places I could walk down broad, tree- lined avenues, watch elegant nineteenth-century women in long white dresses and parasols walk into carefully constructed three-story brick apartment houses, and see presidents and artists shake hands on the sidewalks...
Anna's resentful mother had been psychologically unable to breastfeed, and the child had rejected the bottle. Thus Anna willingly eats only apples she plucks from a tree, since she equates them with the breast and anything else represents the artificiality of a bottle. Anna makes substantial progress-until she discovers the analyst with another patient and tries to drown herself in a fit of jealousy. Blanche takes Anna home and assumes a mother-infant relationship. Carefully, she leads the girl through 1.8 years of life in 18 months...