Word: grasse
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mixed smell of grass and sweat lets you know spring and sports are in the air. But it's not just the skinned knees, twisted ankles, and getting hit on the head by a frisbee that makes springtime sports so much fun. There's also the challenge of putting on your sneakers, heading down to the river and wondering: Can I keep up a good pace through the house courtyard until I'm out of sight? Can I avoid being mowed down by over-zealous roller skaters? And can I hit the traffic lights at the right time...
Like Giinter Grass, his old colleague in the German writers' impromptu workshop Group 47, Lind has evolved less an answer to lunacy than a technique for exposing it. In every work he manages to reduce history to a wild nightmare from which one wakes up laughing. In his latest novel, with a nod to Jonathan Swift, grand master of the savage laugh and the surreal voyage, Lind sets sail on one of his most inspired trips...
...everything else-not just civilization, but much of the ecosystem as well, sparing only certain lower orders of flora and fauna that seem peculiarly able to survive in a radio active environment. Hence the title of the first of three sections in the book: "A Republic of Insects and Grass...
...West Falkland (1,750 sq. mi.), surrounded by a shoal of 200 islets, cover an area about the size of Connecticut.* The prevailing west winds are so fierce that the Falklands have no trees, and, rumors of offshore oil notwithstanding, there are virtually no natural resources except grass. There are also no newspapers or television sets and no paved roads outside the little capital of Port Stanley (pop. 1,050). And in pre-Argentine days, not even the town jail was locked. To Fred Strebeigh, a tutor at Yale who paid a long visit to the islands, Police Chief Terry...
...Keene: "If you want to find the American conductors, you have to go beyond the ten largest orchestras. At the secondary level, Americans seem to have plenty of appointments." Slatkin-the only native-born American leading an orchestra whose annual budget ( lion) is among the dozen highest-thinks the grass-is-greener philosophy extends to other countries: "Look at England. None of the big London orchestras has an English conductor...