Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Newport, R.I., Intercollegiate Tennis Champion Hamilton Richardson, 20, sixth ranking player in the U.S., fought through a four-hour final, longest of the grass-court season, outlasted Pasadena's Straight Clark, 29, for the Newport invitation title, 6-3, 9-7, 12-14, 6-8, 10-8. Shot through with upsets, the tournament saw such top-seeded players as the U.S.'s Vic Seixas, Australia's Wimbledon Finalist Kenneth Rosewall and his Davis Cup teammate, Lewis Hoad, all beaten badly in early rounds...
...something rarer: honesty which may transcend art. The heart of summer, the gleam of flesh against green foliage, are conveyed in Eakins' Swimming Hole. And a man looking at Snap the Whip can remember what it felt like to get out of school and run barefoot on the grass...
Happy as the Grass Was Green. Connolly admits that he has put in only the poetry that pleases him. It ranges from Randall JarrelPs brief, corrosive The Death of the Ball-Turret Gunner to e. e. cummings' lighthearted, lightheaded mike likes all the girls
...grass was green...
...YORK. "Unless they let grass grow in the streets, the life of New York will be short. Cain was the father of urbanism,* and Cain is still murdering his brother. Like a little boy with a gun, a string of cars or a toy steamer, we are fascinated by the city. We like clamor, and the clamor becomes glamour. We become insensate to beauty-but beauty is a word that soon will be taboo. I only use it when I feel weak and foolish...