Word: arboretum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cleaved, in Baudelaire's phrase, to "the heroism of modern life"; even nature, as in Arboretum by Flashbulb, 1942, acquired a sharp inorganic speediness under Davis' city eye. Toughness, aggression, careful construction were as characteristic of his art as of the New York it celebrated. The aims of constructivism - an ideal system, beyond dialectics - meant little to him. Reality, for Davis, was dialectic and it expressed itself in strain. His paintings are all about unstable energy, and in this too he was a most "American" artist. No matter how firmly Davis insisted on their abstract basis...
...seedlings have not been added to the regular collection at the Arboretum but they are open to inspection by the public on request at the Arboretum greenhouses, Weaver said...
...Arnold Arboretum's first plant-hunting expedition to the Far East in 60 years, staff members of the Arboretum brought back hundreds of exotic plant seeds, some of which have already begun to germinate, Dr. Richard E. Weaver, an expedition member at the Arboretum, said yesterday...
...Arnold Arboretum had not sent an expedition to the Orient since 1918 although it had previously been a leader in botanical explorations in temperate Asia...
...swerving, stop-and-go trolley route to Arborway is one of the last true streetcar routes in town. The ride may be pure agony to the impatient, but the Arborway stop at the end of the line is just a short walk from the entrance to the Arnold Arboretum--a Harvard-owned park that supposedly has every kind of plant that will grow in Boston's climate. And they have some bizarre growths. The woody, rolling hills there are the farthest back-to-the-woods you can get by subway...