Word: fig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great deal of his spare time is still devoted to his curbstone clinic, still without fee. What little is left, Stapp spends as a happy-go lucky gardener. His fig, tamarind, apricot and northern bamboo trees lean in splendid disarray among the devil grass. Never having fully recovered from his career as a Wear-Ever salesman, Bachelor Stapp is also an accomplished cook. Visiting Air Force brass, or important civilians such as Northrop's Chief Mechanic Jake Superata (whom Stapp credits with much of the rocket research success), have learned to test their palates on Stapp-prepared specialties...
...Mental Fig Leaves. Hero Brad is a paper shuffler at SHAEF, and a first lieutenant. Haunted by the glacial respectability of his New England future after the war, he wants to have an adulterous fling while he can. But his low-level imaginings rarely embrace anything more than a brief, businesslike interlude with a party girl. Instead he meets Val, the grave-eyed brunette daughter of an invalided British brigadier, fully Jane's social opposite number and twice as good-looking. They fall immediately and desperately in love, and exchange guilty confidences about his wife and her friend Wynter...
...room which they shared together, all five were gone. Calling on his neighbors for help, Father Moonsammy frantically searched the darkness for the missing girls. At dawn he found them. Silhouetted by the eerie morning light, their five young bodies hung lifeless from branches of two wild fig trees just 100 yards from their father's house. Amid the wailing of friends and neighbors, the police announced the cause of death: suicide...
From the start, conservative Philadelphia businessmen admired classic models (later covered by fig leaves); artists wanted their nature in the raw. In 1795 Artist Peale had struck the first blow for the artists, heroically stripped to the skin when an overmodest baker, hired as a model, refused to take off his breeches. But even with Peale's influence, a life class was not put in the academy's curriculum until 1812. Nudity also ended the academy's Golden Age, the decade 1876-86, when the school was dominated by Thomas Eakins. He revolutionized art teaching, insisted that...
...Wrote Washington in reply: "It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. [In this nation] everyone shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid...