Word: gardened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, by Joyce Carol Gates. In a season of female discontent this heroine is a poor girl determined to make good but fated to go mad. A novel of considerable power...
Museum of Modern Art's sculpture garden and in the Guggenheim's International Sculpture Show. The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is showing four Smiths; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum, the New Jersey State Museum and Pittsburgh's Carnegie one apiece. Yet so sudden is the demand that only four of his pieces have actually been constructed in metal; the rest exist only as painted plywood mockups...
Industrial companies have also learned to contribute generously to the cost of building new sculptures. Les Levine, whose transparent Star Garden was shown at Manhattan's Modern Museum this spring (TIME, May 5), built his work with $2,000 worth of plastics and labor donated by American Cyanamid. Businessman Don Lippincott is the angel behind the North Haven plant where Broken Obelisk was fabricated, invested $100,000 in it so that sculptors could produce works for civic groups and industry. U.S. Steel supplies Lippincott with its new Cor-Ten steel, which weathers to a russet brown, at a generous...
...mercy of oblivion promptly descended on Dr. Cook's Garden, Keep It in the Family, and Song of the Grasshopper, three turkeys that trotted to their dooms. Appropriately enough, Garden was about mercy killing of a sort. Dr. Cook has kept God's bucolic little acre of Greenfield Center, Vt., weeded by systematically poisoning mentally retarded children and town skinflints who fight bills for new schools. Burl Ives as the doctor made a sly sweet monster, but he wasn't really scary. What was really scary about the Ira Levin melodrama was that someone produced...
Grief-stricken, uncomprehending, terrified of being sent to an orphanage, they decide to bury Mother in the garden and tell no one. "Everything will be just as it has always been," says Elsa, the oldest. Under her direction, they go to school as usual, do the housekeeping, and maintain a kind of brawling, sprawling discipline based on love for each other and fear of the perils outside the old stained-glass door. They are sustained, too, by a mother cult-complete with sepulchral candles and antiphonal responses-in which one sensitive girl plays Sibyl for her siblings, delivering utterances from...