Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nestled in a valley called "Paradise," a mile or so outside a tiny California town, its fresh air-pure water isolation breeds a hushed serenity. Six families live in the valley, families who left the cities and towns two or three years ago to build their own homes and grow their own food. The cow there is really named Bessie and she indeed has story-book big brown eyes. Roosters crow at dawn and pigs are even uglier and smellier than the ones you wrinkled your noses at in the children...
...finished third in the Sherry Cup, an international competition held at Sotogrande. Sotogrande is a breathtaking course hewn out of the cork trees that grow in the lush valley of the Guadiare River. Two continents can be seen from the course as the misty silhouette of the Rock of Gibralter looms 22 miles out into the Mediterranean...
...illusion combine to confuse all the wanderers in the wood. The fairies bewitch the mortals and each other, the mortals get lost and easily fall prey to the fairies' spells. But all, human and immortal alike, are animated by the glades and avenues within the forest and they all grow together...
...role is more crucial: the weak child is usually the one with the most intense early attachment to the mother. Troubled mothers often try to control their own immaturity by using the double bind in caring for the child. Example: "Stay an infant, so I can care for you. Grow up, be a success." In an early study of schizophrenia, Bowen cited the example of a mother's way of dealing with a psychotic son: she buttered his bread, cut his meat and poured his milk, all the while urging the son to learn to do more for himself...
Great poetry is ageless. It is translations that grow old. In the future, Poulin's work will probably be superseded by a fresh interpretation. New translators will find other gems in the treasure of Rilke's work. But it may be generations before Rilke's ecstatic conclusion to the tenth Elegy sings better or truer in English...