Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...island.* In an extemporaneous speech Khrushchev cried: "Your country is rich, and it is understandable that the colonialists were reluctant to leave it," and he delivered himself of a cautionary homily: "You cannot get rid of colonialism with prayers any more than you can teach a tiger to eat grass. Independence is possible only by fighting...
...fact mattered little in The Wind, in which only one character is of much importance. The Grass, which tells the story of the deterioration of a French provincial family, as an old aunt lies dying, is more intricate and less suited to Simon's techniques. Parts of the book are brilliant-notably the scenes of bickering between the dying woman's brother and sister-in-law. Realist Simon forces the reader to note precisely the tics and twitches of decaying minds, and to feel the texture of withering flesh. But something is lost when Simon's subject...
...GRASS (216 pp.)-Claude Simon, translated by Richard Howard-Braziller...
...varied land of goat-ridden droughtland, snowy peaks, Amazonian jungle and the lofty, remote eastern mesas where Sir Walter Raleigh looked for El Dorado. Bone-chilled peasants tend their flocks of goats on the slopes of a spur of the Andes; cowboys ride through the tough, chest-high grass of the llanos-Venezuela's central prairie-driving herds of bony cattle before them. In one of the few spots in Venezuela that are radically changed-a cooperative sugar farm on the estate of a Pérez Jiménez crony long since fled-a harvester puts down...
...Sounds in the Night, done in 1943, was an imaginative effort to give shapes to bodiless little noises, to picture 'the creatures you thought might make the sounds you could not identify." The two pictures together seemed to prove what Graves himself denies: that both whispers in the grass and the roaring of machinery can be beautiful, in totally different ways. Vachel Lindsay, an earlier American romantic, once put the point in verse...