Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...older generation, the Summer Jam tapped a widespread desire to return to the uninhibited atmosphere of the campus, to create a vast, congenial party atmosphere with none of the negative overtones of rock's erratic past. Most of the kids just wanted to lie back in the grass, smoke dope, drink wine and be free of worry about being busted-or about being harassed by any adult authority. Then, too, many of them were younger brothers and sisters of the Woodstock generation, eager to live up to the stories they have heard for years about that great communal event...
...most important of her life. In 1880, Nebraska was still a pioneer society. Most people lived in sod houses. So many settlers from Scandinavia and Bohemia were arriving that Willa could go for days without hearing English spoken outside her house. She was wildly excited. To her, the prairie grass looked as if it were running; it seemed possible to hear the corn growing in the summer night. In the next eleven years, the frontier was to vanish. "The great-hearted adventurers" who opened the West were replaced by men "trained in petty economies." When Cather began to write...
...just as artificial. There is a scene between Dillinger and Billie on a wide stretch of plain with huge clouds rolling by that could have been done with the same footage used in a scene in Bonnie and Clyde where Beatty and Dunaway roll in the grass. One of Dillinger's gang steals a car from two young lovers, too preoccupied to notice, just as the Barrow gang did. Dillinger's violence is as bloody as Bonnie and Clyde's, its accents and clothes as realistic. Dillinger's blatant theft is the motif of the vengeful cop, relentlessly pursuing...
...CLUBHOUSE looks out over a square mile or so of grass courts banked by ridges of trees and hills beyond. It is a quiet, sedate club for the Boston mainline. You can spot some of the members by their leathery tans, squared postures and clothes in conservative good taste. The others you know by their familiarity with the place--an owners' familiarity...
...faced when he lost. And Mrs. Stockton, sitting anonymous in General Admissions, tried to hide the tears she cried. A half hour later Connors, high on his success, is surrounded in the pressroom. The Stockton family, minus Mr., waits for Dickie on the clubhouse porch, looking out over the grass now singed dusky by the sun's going down. He barely acknowledges them as he trudges by, towel draped around his neck for a shower. How do you greet a beaten Stockton when all the customary reassurances, the buck ups, the next times, the good fights, come as so much...