Word: gourds
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...meaning to their Harvard experience, the current Black students have tapped into a rich wellspring from which they can draw great resource in arranging perspective; for the history of Harvard Black him is replete with examples of positive inspiration: Richard I. Greener, William Monroe Trotter, W.E.B. DuBois, Ned Gourd in, Leo Hansberry, Edwin Jourdain, William Hastic, Bob Moses, Barry Williams, Theodore K. Lawless, Ralph Bunch, Robert Weaver, Whitney Young, Arthur Mitchell, Mondedcia Johnson, John Hope Franklin, Countee Cullen, Eve B. Douglass (Radcliffe)--the list goes on and on. It would be a rewarding experience for students to become even more...
...pumpkin is basically just a big goofy gourd...
...rein in the intrinsic oddity of her metal flora. So one does not get distracted wondering what this or that thing was: what counts is what it now is, its role in a larger system of metaphors that circles back on nature. One would need to be a bronze gourd oneself not to be delighted by this artist's ebullience and delicacy of feeling...
...essentially unique were called joca ("jests").... In these joca Sainte Foy overlooked no detail, no matter how small, or seemingly unimportant.... Sainte Foy helped one of [the 11th-century author] Bernard's pupils find a prayer book that he had lost in a forest near Angers. She filled a gourd with wine to refresh several hot and thirty pilgrims...
...level, the tour was a cavalcade of Africanization. The crowds in Brazzaville, Congo, shook gourd rattles and castanets, waved palm branches, bouquets, homemade crucifixes. In a church near Kinshasa, old women trilled highpitched lullaloos, and the officiating Belgian priest wore a monkey-skin headdress with the tail running down his back. Among the gifts presented to John Paul in Nairobi: primitive paintings, an animal-skin cape, an antelope horn, daggers, a spear and shield, and a tribal headdress that he gamely donned...