Word: tree
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...moonlit night in early October, under the branches of a small apple tree, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study was born...
...Mark Calculator Series was in development in the Computation Laboratory. When, together with the Graduate Center, the World Tree was inaugurated in 1949, somebody wrote: "Of all the work of Walter Gropius, this cosmic hat rack is the dopius...
...recruits were people who were reliable voters but were sometimes excluded from the established social register--Jews, Irishmen and Asians. By 1993, McAuliffe had boosted ninefold the D.N.C.'s club of business leaders who paid dues of $10,000 a year. They became the roots of McAuliffe's money tree, which keeps flourishing thanks to his continuous stream of small kindnesses. No event passes without personal thank-you notes to "my guys," as McAuliffe calls them. He attends out-of-town funerals of their relatives, lines up White House tours for their friends and arranges presidential notes for special occasions...
...could make vanish with a blithe demurral. In his 90s, when he might have sat at home with his lover Martin Hensler and his beloved Times crosswords, this old theatrical cat was often on a film set, spinning anecdotes of the legendary actor-managers Henry Irving and Herbert Beerbohm Tree. "When I was young," he said, "we wore our best suits to rehearsal and called the leading man 'Sir.' Now they wear jeans and call me John...
...process. "The language of 'healing' and 'closure,'" he says, "is the obscene language of forgetfulness." Yet he also says the effect of the new memorials is to make one both remember and forget. The Murrah Building wall and the shell of the Journal Record newspaper building behind the Survivor Tree were deliberately preserved to recall the destructiveness, the ugliness, of the bombing. Without them, the memorial would look solely like a pastoral landscape--soothing and quietly evocative, yet minus clues that something terrible had taken place. "One does not enshrine the violence," says Linenthal, "but it is necessary to retain...