Word: garden
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...past several years showed that students living at Radcliffe list building a recreational athletic facility as their chief request towards making life at the Quad more desirable. The proposed facility will be built on the present site of five outdoor tennis courts on the corner of Bond and Garden Sts., and will not reduce open park space...
...recommendation, which will be sent to the city council some time next week, will request that the Harvard-owned land bordered by Garden, James, and Mason streets be down-zoned to have the maximum height of any buildings from 85 to 35 feet. The city council is the only governing body which can make a change in the zoning map, and the proposed change from a C-1 to a C-2 classificationmuy be approved by seven of the nine councilors...
...Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Hannah Green dealt with the anxieties about death, sex and insanity that bother many adolescents. The novel, which explores the efforts of an adolescent girl to free herself from a destructive fantasy world, found a wide following, largely because it evoked such sympathy with the schizophrenic heroine's anxieties...
...gods, Debby frolics barefoot on the grass. This superficial happy ending--a far cry from Green's more ambiguous closing--epitomizes the film's shallowness and belies the realism of the book's title. With its failure to provide any understanding of insanity. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden ends up doing little more than exploiting the bizarre behaviour of psychosis for the thrill, with a sensationalism the novel's deeper treatment avoided...
...outs are Matisse's last resolution of two visions of nature that were woven into his birthright as a painter: the European heritage of symbols. One was the artificial paradise garden, whose chief example (for Matisse) was the Alhambra in Granada-nature tamed, formalized and patterned to the highest degree of artifice and comfort. A work like the Large Decoration with Masks, 1953, with its repeated gridwork of leaves and cloves, alludes directly to Arabic tilework. But the other prototype was the vision of the natural paradise, exemplified since the 18th century by Tahiti. Matisse had gone to Tahiti...