Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Novelist David Garnett wins hands down with his memories of childhood and youth (the first volume of his autobiography). When he was five, Joseph Conrad took him into the garden and taught him to sail a boat ("the sail was a . . . sheet tied . . . to a clothes prop . . . The green grass heaved in waves . . . our speed was terrific"). Novelist Ford Madox Ford showed him how to "twitch one ear without moving the other"; he went for a drive "accompanied by Henry James riding a bicycle," and a man named Jack Galsworthy, who had bookish aspirations, taught him to keep his head...
...India, $7,500,000, to finance the world's biggest fleet of heavy tractors. By plowing under the tough kans grass that has overrun millions of acres, the tractors will bring land back into cultivation. Within two years, India expects to have 1,500,000 more acres of farmland, enough to produce $35 million a year in wheat...
...memorable display of the nation's early art from the grass roots opens this week in the cool marble splendor of Washington's National Gallery. The show includes more than 100 top items from the 1,500-picture collection amassed since World War II by Edgar William Garbisch-and his wife (the former Bernice Chrysler). The entire collection will eventually be presented to the National Gallery, making that repository of Old World masterpieces a good deal more "national" than heretofore...
About the time of the Civil War, the grass roots of American painting started to wither. Photography and the color lithographs of Currier & Ives beat the primitive professionals out. But now, with amateur primitives burgeoning year by year, the nation's art may be in the process of developing a brand-new set of grass roots...
...Kentucky prep race for the Derby last week Jockey Eddie Arcaro, riding another come-from-behind race (from twelfth at the half-mile mark), brought the Woodvale Farm's Goyamo home first in the $38,600 Blue Grass Stakes at Lexington. Time...