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Across no man's land comes the sound of Silent Night-"Stille nacht, heilige nacht. . ." The Germans toss over a boot containing a sprig of evergreen tied with red ribbon, a package of cigarettes, a piece of sausage. The Tommies toss back a Christmas pudding. Then, as the Tommies grab for their rifles, German soldiers appear at the back of the stage. They have a bottle of schnapps. The rifles go down. Everybody drinks. Up in the light bulbs it says: ONE HALF OF BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE WIPED...
Intentionally or not, the author has fitted his prose to his subject; the writing is foppish, runs to such Evergreen Review cliches as "this is clip street, hustle street-frenzied-nightactivity street." Despite such mannerisms, Rechy shows with something like objectivity the curious life of the homosexual "youngmen." There are the "queens"-men who use girls' names, feminine makeup and clothes ("drag"). There are the "stud hustlers"-male prostitutes. And the "scores"-the men who buy the favors of the stud hustlers...
Useful Bark. Weyerhaeuser's evergreen empire began in 1900 when Immigrant Lumberman Frederick Weyerhaeuser bought 900,000 acres of forest from his St. Paul neighbor. Northern Pacific Railroad Builder James J. Hill; he paid $5,400,000 for property today valued at $1,750,000,000. In the early days, lumber mills customarily burned off waste or dumped it in nearby rivers, polluting them. Weyerhaeuser, spurred by the New Deal's emphasis on conservation, looked for ways to use waste. Over the years, it found a process to bleach fir pulp white to make it suitable for better...
...little boys of all ages, a modern myth of the mother goddess. The myth declares itself in symbols too insistent-the child is flatly called by the name of the goddess herself; her lover brings her a weathercock, bird of Apollo, god of light; and at the end an evergreen, tree of Dionysus, god of darkness, stands above his corpse...
...Evergreen Park, Ill., Drury Lane: Joan Bennett as the Britisher-mama in The Reluctant Debutante...