Word: groves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choice. "If the call comes, fine. I'll do my best. If it doesn't, so be it." When the call came, he became "very thoughtful," says Hugh Morrow. "I've got to tell Happy," Rocky said somberly as he wandered off to a pine grove where his wife was walking her dog. Exactly how she responded is not known, but probably with, at best, muted enthusiasm: Happy is a deeply private person who does not relish the role of a political wife. "As a concerned citizen, I'm thrilled," she told reporters later. Then...
...small farmers, the drought could be ruinous. For example, Kenneth Grove, who invested heavily in weed killers and fertilizers to work his 220 acres in Tecumseh, Neb., has given up on part of his crop and is now mowing it to feed his 80-head dairy herd. On the other hand, many large and middle-size farmers, who earned the bulk of the $32 billion in agricultural income last year, have enough financial protection to tide them over. Indeed, many big wheat farmers, who brought in their winter harvest before the drought struck, stand to make a bundle because they...
...INFERNAL GROVE by MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE 280 pages. Morrow...
With most prophets who deal in unrelieved raillery, the tedium is the message. But Muggeridge is too canny an entertainer for that. In The Infernal Grove, the second volume of his autobiography, he writes with enough verve and instinct for artful exaggeration to keep a good novel spinning along. His pages are enlivened with provocations to conventional wisdom ("Innocence is often a quality of worldly success, as sophistication is of worldly failure" ... "News like sensuality is a passing excitement; perhaps the ultimate fantasy of all"). His characters-including a Who's Who of English politics, journalism and literature...
...first autobiographical installment, he was raised as a devout socialist in a middle-class suburb of London. Later, his Utopian faith was shattered by his experiences as a correspondent in the Raj's India and Stalin's Moscow. Now, as the war ends in The Infernal Grove, he turns away in final disenchantment from the "world's wreck," disgusted equally with the victors and the vanquished...