Word: hammock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some books are destined, not for the ages, but for the nearest hammock. Elliot Paul's Desperate Scenery and Alexandra Orme's Paris Original are light summer fare, earmarked for twin hammocks stamped "His" and "Hers." Author Paul who often as not writes about Paris, this time has written an autobiographical boy-faces-life yarn set in the remote reaches of 1910 Idaho and Wyoming. Authoress Orme's novel is a girl-meets-love story set in the feline, high-fashion world of postwar Paris. Each book lightheartedly holds a slightly askew mirror up to human nature...
...humorous peak with a description of the night the brothel burned down in Ashton, Idaho, and "the quick thinkers routed out those who chanced to be relaxing in the bedrooms ..." Happily, sporting life a la Paul never gets quite so outrageous that it cannot be thoroughly enjoyed by hammock-readers of either...
Eleven months Billy labors; the twelfth he rests with his wife, three daughters and baby boy, and a Great Pyrenees dog named Belshazzar. The Graham family lives in a six-room, grey stone house in Montreal, N.C. with picture windows, rhododendrons, a hammock by a mountain stream, a TV set, and a log fence to keep out nosy tourists. But the Rev. William Franklin Graham is at his happiest when he is at his busiest and loneliest: on the platform in a vast amphitheater, or drawling into a mike the Tarheel tag line to his ABC broadcast, "May the Lord...
Lord Tennyson, looking for his imaginary land of the "mild-eyed, melancholy Lotos-eaters," might as easily have slung his hammock among the easygoing, soft-spoken people of Cambodia, smallest of French IndoChina's three Associated States (Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos), a kingdom watered by great slow rivers and sheltered by towering mountains...
White Baby. One day he saw a bat hanging from the vines by her wings (upside down for a bat). Gritting her teeth as if in pain, she bent her lower body, making a sort of hammock out of her tail membrane. Soon tiny white feet appeared; then a small white body and crumpled white wings. The young bat dropped into the hammock. When it gave a faint squeak, its mother picked it up with her teeth and attached it to the fur near one of her breasts. She turned herself upside down (right side...