Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rocky, rugged hill where four successive generations of Holbrooks once farmed and raised their children, the wilderness is taking over, "marching from the edges of the old fields and pastures . . . advancing to the barn to break its ribs." As he gazes on his deserted schoolhouse and the ghostly, grass-choked neighboring farms, Historian Holbrook ponders three questions that have haunted his life...
...radish being watered in the picture to the right is one of many that have mysteriously sprouted in the lawn plot between Wigglesworth and Grays Halls-Beans, carrots, lettuce, squash, ginnlas, marigolds, and sunflowers are also growing, along with the grass that the University has recently sown...
These vegetables were planted last month by residents of Wigglesworth Hall when workmen ploughed the ground in preparation for the new grass. Ever since then, the vegetables have been watered daily by University grasskeepers, who thought them grass. In a few weeks the proctor, self-appointed head-gardener, plans to open a produce stand "beside Leavitt and Peirce--for Summer School students...
...Soaring. Among the most vocal of the signers was Ad Reinhardt, who paints as abstractly as possible. "Anyone who would sit down to paint grass today," says Reinhardt, "is just an illustrator. What we see isn't real; everybody knows that." Reinhardt's pictures have nothing to do with anything except "the aesthetic experience, the painting experience...
...Betty, "sweet as a rose," who sits "Down in the meadow, where the green grass grows." Donald Duck was a "one-legged duck, two-legged duck, three-legged duck." In Seattle, the singsong went...