Word: floras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grass. Conveniences like these, however, are regarded by many inmates as a fair exchange for the shortage of real flora and fauna. "I like being able to run over and pick up a loaf of bread," says Mrs. Marcia Reese, waiting in the laundromat for a load of nappies to dry. "We enjoyed the quiet last week in the woods, but until my kids are out of diapers, this is more fun." For older kids, Campland is a mixed bag. Young Jeff Andreoli complains that he cannot play baseball or football: "There's no grass here." Karen Folts...
Looking more flora than fauna herself, Mrs. David Bruce, wife of the U.S. representative at the Paris peace talks with North Viet Nam, popped across the Channel to London's Chelsea Flower Show to accept the new Evangeline Bruce Rose, named in her honor. Appropriately, for the wife of a diplomat, the Evangeline Bruce is a delicate compromise of pink and cream...
...gang of rubber harvesters on a brief trip into the Upper Amazon. He returned home seven years later. In between, he lived in the jungle with the primitive Amahuaca Indians, first as a captive, finally as chief. Nine years ago, F. Bruce Lamb, a U.S. researcher in tropical flora, first met Córdova-Rios, then transcribed and translated the old man's astonishingly detailed, fascinating recollections...
...pages to mauling him, and helped prompt the Harper's riposte. Kate loses many a battle with Mailer in the article before she winds up winning the war. "By any major literary perspective." says a scornful Mailer, "the land of Millett is a barren and mediocre terrain, its flora reminiscent of a Ph.D. tract, its roads a narrow argument, and its horizon low." Kate is "nothing if not a pug-nosed wit," and "the yaws of her distortion were nicely hidden by the smudge pots of her indignation." As for Millett's views: "She saw the differences between...
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