Word: hemlock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THIRD DAY. A chill, gusty rain whipped through the trees. "This is good," said Fred. "The deer's vision will be dimmed by raindrops on their eyelashes." Toward nightfall, as the downpour subsided into a fine mist, Fred spied a big buck munching on ground hemlock 80 yards away. Slowly, silently, Fred positioned his razorhead arrow and watched for five, ten, 20 excruciating minutes as the buck worked his way toward the clearing. But suddenly, he jerked his head, wriggled his nose, and was off into the bush. "Damn!" exclaimed Fred as he huddled over the camp stove. "With...
...loveless, brief encounters, the guilt-ridden, blackout reliance on alcohol, the endless courtship rat race of the gay bars with its inevitable quota of rejection, humiliation and loneliness. Crowley underscores the fact that while the homosexual may pose as a bacchanal of nonconformist pagan delights, he frequently drinks a hemlock-bitter cup of despair...
...Hudson River, now in the National Gallery, was completed in 1860, while the artist was living in London, and commemorated a view near West Point overlooking Storm King Mountain. The panorama includes hunters, grazing sheep, and sailboats, but its real subject is the vivid plumage of birch, sugar maple, hemlock and scarlet oak. A century later, Cropsey's portrayal is still fresh and unspoiled, a continuing celebration of the season when, as Thoreau said, "every tree is a living liberty pole, on which a thousand bright flags are flying...
...Just any old barn won't do," says Jolin, who keeps a man busy roving back-country roads through central Wisconsin. Pine and hemlock are best, he has found, because the pitch between the growth rings lets them weather more beautifully. But if the barn is less than 50 years old, the wood is usually insufficiently weathered; if it is more than 100 years old, the wood is often too brittle. "Out of 30 barns, you find only five good ones," says Jolin, who reckons wastage caused by cracking and splitting on even a fine barn...
...although it was an abhorrent kind of civil disobedience, pointed out the University's complicity in war crimes--and the University should serve up a banquet for the prophets in its midst--or the University should file a complaint and have the students put in jail. The watered-down hemlock of disciplinary action is inappropriate. At least the citizens of Athens had the good sense to realize that Socrates was serious. Mary-Claire Stubbs Assistant to the Director of Development Harvard Divinity School...