Word: gardens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THUNDER IN THE ROOM, by Harris Downey (205 pp.; Macmillan; $3), is a first novel which attempts a Joycean account of a day in the life of some citizens of a Southern capital, but often it seems more like a long afternoon spent in a botanical garden. From the very first page, when beautiful Stella Madden catches the delicate odor of spring, the prose thrusts up stalks of dracaena, carnations, ger-beras, tulips, coleuses, yaupon, oleander, jasmine, gladioli, magnolia and azalea. Even the characters come equipped with floral borders: Yancey, a condemned murderer, "clutches his hyacinth-red hair"; beautiful Stella...
Although he wrote 17 books and was a constant contributor to the Atlantic Monthly, Brown was known primarily for his work with young people interested in the literary arts, especially poetry. He left the University faculty in 1925 after six years in the English department, but his home on Garden St. remained a warm and friendly meeting place for students who wanted his help or advice...
...brother" would have the additional advantage of being able to ease the foreign student's social adjustment. To date, the University has done almost nothing for the social life of its foreign students. Although the International Student Center at 33 Garden St. can introduce the foreigner to American families in the area, only Harvard can ease the student's social life within the University...
...Harvard community more successfully. Such a group could interest the various clubs with any international flavor, such as the Harvard-Delhi project, the World Federalists, or the language clubs, in extending special invitations to foreign students. It could also interest individual American students in dropping in at 33 Garden Street for an evening, or in making a special effort to meet the foreigners. The foreign student problem at Harvard is one of missed opportunities, opportunities which could be realized with very little effort...
...borrowed the glowing technique developed by the Dutch masters. His ready-for-eating apple, raisins and sugar-coated cake, by their closely observed rendering bring a glow of appreciation and recognition. Maine's late great eccentric, Marsden Hartley (1878-1943), with Flowers from Claire Spencer's Garden in a white crockery pitcher testified to his love for Maine more intimately and no less glowingly than with the blunt, powerful landscapes he did of Mt. Katahdin...