Word: gardens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cliffe began modestly enough, as is always the case in such mammoth projects, but it wasn't long before she began to chip steadily away at the male world several hundred yards down Garden Street. The extent of the damage, however, did not become apparent until just after the war, when the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences became the Radcliffe faculty. Of course, cries of astonishment were heard all around, but it was too late; Harvard, oldest and proudest bastion of male education, had fallen...
Margot Fonteyn-Dame Commander of the British Empire,* star of Covent Garden's Royal Ballet, top ballerina of the Western world-cast a large, limpid brown eye through her camera view finder and pressed the little button. A flashbulb's white glare froze a busy scene against the black of a tropic night on the Gulf of Panama, in the Pacific. Dame Margot's husband Roberto ("Tito") Arias-scion of one of Panama's 20-odd leading families and recently (1955-58) his nation's Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
DEATH IN THAT GARDEN (310 pp.)-José André Lacour-Rinehart...
When Belgian-born Author José André Lacour outlined his Death in That Garden, he found himself at a writer's disadvantage. The setting was the upper reaches of Amazonia, but Lacour had never been there. So he left his home near Paris and spent three months in Brazil; including ten days on the Amazon-though quite comfortably on a friend's yacht. When his novel was published, one French critic flatly hailed it as "one of the masterworks of his generation." It is not that, but it is still one of the grimmest stories in some...
...then, in some of the most dreadful descriptions in recent fiction, the others go. Only the former commander of the soldiers is left, and he is reduced to cannibalism. With all its obvious symbolism, its irony, its implicit plea for man's humanity to man, Death in That Garden will best be remembered as a tale of adventure brought off with literary flair and an almost savage imagination...