Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most purposes, the Advocate begins on page 16 with three stories written in Mr. Bush's writing course this summer. Two of these are quite short stories by Mary Montgomery, Courage of the Earth and The Boy and the Lady. Miss Montgomery creates an understandable human situation in her love affair in the well-titled Courage of the Earth, one which anticipates and leads to the inevitable climactic moment, only to be dragged down to the level of an inverted dirty joke by the last sentences ... "Then she did something the courage for which she hadn't imagined...
...great if we could get Michelangelo and Shakespeare on the tube?" Pat said). Of the 26 shows that Graff will run off on consecutive Sundays at 2:30 E.D.T., seven will be entirely new, e.g., visits with Jacques Lipchitz, Igor Stravinsky, Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, Vannevar Bush, Walter Gropius. Next week Graff himself steps in to interview David Ben-Gurion in the library of his Tel Aviv home. His basic idea: to provide "a uniform panorama of human leadership in the first half of the century...
With a fine command of Irish idiom, Cork man Gibbings tells the story of two people who were forced to live the lives of Stone Age man and woman in the Australian bush. One was John Graham, a feckless County Cork boy, who was transported for seven years for stealing six pounds of hemp. Assigned as convict-servant to a brutal farmer near Sydney, Graham grew sick and sore at a system by which a man might get as many as 1,600 lashes of a cat-o-nine-tails in a three-year period. He absconded into the bush...
...bush, a more primitive mercy than the King's justice awaited him. The "blackfellows" regarded white men as the returned ghosts of their own tribesmen. As a ghost, Graham was welcomed into a tribe, claimed as a husband by a lubra (squaw) and became a hunter of goanna lizard, a grubber for grubs. Author Gibbings' narrative suggests that to a lively Irishman this simple life was simply and literally a bore. Eventually, Graham gave himself up to "the authorities." But after he was back in irons, rumors came through to the New South Wales penal settlements that there...
...more on their minds than a restful lunch. Then came a rising sound of motor traffic, a cloud of dust, the rasp of gravel on rubber as four automobiles slid to a stop near by. From the lead car bounded a bulky, shirtsleeved figure who plunged through the manzanita bush like a startled bull moose, thrust a hand at Mr. Cadwallader, announced simply: "I'm Senator Knowland." After five minutes of picture taking and small talk, William Fife Knowland, his wife, his aides and his escort of 8 newsmen got back into their cars and tore off down...