Word: orchard
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Although Harvard could not compete for the team title, which Rutgers ultimately won, the women golfers left the Orchard Golf Course just as the other schools did--as a team...
...tried the University of Tennessee twice and the U.S. Air Force once. He married a young woman from college named Lee Holleman, the first of his two wives, and they had a son, Cullen, who is an architect in Spain. The elder McCarthy's first book was The Orchard Keeper, an unsentimental, striking, powerful, lovely commemorative to a gone way of life in the old Tennessee hills that ended so portentously it made you want to snatch Faulkner from the grave and choke him for his influence...
McCarthy got some grant money for The Orchard Keeper -- the William Faulkner Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters -- and there is no account of his having hit a lick at anything but novel writing since. His second wife, Anne de Lisle, recalls living in a barn with him outside Knoxville for eight years, bathing outdoors, eating beans, her husband rejecting $2,000 offers to speak at universities because everything he had to say was available in those books that no one was buying. The repellent could have been subject matter, but then only a simpleton...
...looks best in the final scene, when the houses are cleared away and the stage is swathed in bright white accentuating the neon-painted bookcase, chair and rocking horse. Only then is the orchard visibly the heart of the house, and of the characters' lives...
Chekhov would have appreciated this production of his classic, which emphasizes the script's comic elements. He always insisted the play was a comedy, despite the preponderance of productions that yearned for political implications and darker meanings. The A.R.T.'s Cheery Orchard depicts the passage of an age in the sunlight of a dreamlike afternoon...