Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born Irma Shuler, in Lincoln, Mass., likes to ski, takes his Scotch with water. When Lincoln's town fathers refused Explosives Expert Kistiakowsky a permit to dynamite some stumps on his acreage, he flashed the Manhattan Project Medal for Merit citation awarded him by President Truman, got a green light-and blew the stumps skyhigh...
...bearded bohemian who slugged hostile critics and hurled eggs against the wall on impulse. He alternated between exhausting stretches of work and months-long alcoholic bouts. But as an artist he believed in being both cool and controlled, recommended billiards as a fine training for any beginner. "On that green surface and within that frame." Carles said, "he will find the equilibrium, symmetry, triangulation, direction, motion and restraint...
...book on, say, unidentified flying objects, knows that he is not going to be told, on the first page, that flying saucers are imaginary. The author has an advance from his publisher, and he is going to see the thing through, complete with wiring diagrams and interviews with little green men. The case of the beatniks is similar; the unwashed T shirts are tangible enough, but is there anything new, socio-religio-artistically speaking, inside them? The author of this Baedeker to Beatland says, naturally, that there is. The barbarians, he reports, are within the gates of U.S. civilization, armed...
KENNETH GRAHAME (400 pp.)-Peter Green-World...
Passion for Nature. In Biographer Green's view, Grahame was a strange and troubled man, who never really left his own childhood. Young Kenneth's mother died when he was five, and his alcoholic father shipped him and three other Grahame children from Inveraray to the home of a grandmother in Cookham Dene. The grandmother and the other relatives who raised the children were far from monsters-at worst, reports Green, they were irritable and unimaginative. But to Kenneth they were, in his caustic description, "Olympians," given to religious hypocrisy, sticky sentiment, willful stupidity and dullness. Most damning...