Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...materialistic subjects. Particularly interesting to Americans is the long series of "Poemas De Amor" (Poems of Love"), by Pablo Neruda. The influence of Walt Whitman's frank free-verse avowals of sensuality is here-shown by poems strikingly similiar both in form and content to those in "Leaves of Grass." Even Whitman's phrase "Song of the male and of the female" is here repeated...
...surface of the Charles and the dresses of the doxies along its banks? But no more could these aphrodisiacs of spring enliven him, for now they aroused within him a palling cloud of defensive inactivity, which made the light breeze seem vicious, the caressing sunlight tropical, and even the grass like brittle spicules of rock...
...clashing colors. Only a handful busied themselves with prison themes. Sing Sing's Walter C. Brown had a garish interpretation of his jail's aviary; Michigan State Prison's Convict No. 15870 showed a hunched cellmate, a corner of the jailyard where straw-hatted inmates raked grass. Most arresting was a series of pencil sketches by Sylvia Carlisle of the Reformatory for Women in Framingham, Mass. depicting such routine incidents as The Rising Bell, The Bucket Line, Gymnasium, The Hospital. The anonymity of the convict's life she expressed by failing to draw features...
President Conant's greatest research as a chemist was on the subject of chlorophyll. On his walks through the Yard he will appreciate more than ever the verdant, luxuriant growth of a plant filled with chlorophyll, a plant called grass. From one end of the Yard to the other his eyes can feast upon the expanse of grass. From Holworthy to Wigglesworth, from Thayer unto Strauss he can take pride in both those plots of grass that still survive. He can erect a bronze tablet in honor of those brave young blades that pushed through the morass in front...
...Grass was literally growing in Wall Street when Bank of New York & Trust Co. was founded in 1784. The little city of 23.000 souls which sprawled across the lower tip of Manhattan Island was just beginning to recover from the scourge of British occupation. One-eighth of the town was a blasted waste of charred ruins. Orchards and fences had all been burned for fuel. Cows browsed in the weedy thoroughfares. Wharves were decaying. The city treasury was empty...