Word: orchards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert E. Barnett of Lincoln, Neb.; Robert D. Canty of Arlington, Mass.; Robert S. Dolven (Capt.) of Willmar, Minn.; Jack A. Hamilton of Kalamazoo, Mich.; Robert A. Hastings of Austin, Minn.; Philip C. Haughey of Framingham, Mass.; Richard K. Hurley of Belmont, Mass.; Edward L. Keenan of Orchard Park, N. Y.; Rodney W. Long, Jr., Winchester, Mass.; Lewis D. Lowenfels, New York City; Neil K. Muncaster of Winchester, Mass.; William M. Parmley of Salt Lake City, Utah; Dominic Repetto of Rockville Center, N. Y.; LeRoy H. Scharpen of Red Wing, Minn.; William M. Schreiber of Wooster, Ohio; Robert S. Treisman...
...mixed irony and despair. In "The Lodger," a lawyer sells his youth, career and principles to marry for money, only to learn that everyone despises him. In "A Visit to Friends," a Moscow lawyer visits the ancestral estate of childhood friends and learns, in conversations reminiscent of The Cherry Orchard, that they are doomed to lose the estate as they dribble away their days in futility, hoping vainly for a miracle...
...taverns and coffee shops all over Spain's capital last week, once respectable customers were sidling up to waiters and barkeeps to whisper the cryptic words: "Any orchard chops?" Often as not, the bartender would reply 'with a knowing wink and lead the customer around to a hidden door in the back of the shop. There, while both of them kept a nervous ear cupped for the sudden cry of "Poll!" (police) from a boy on watch, the avid customer would receive his prize - a crispy, crunchy sparrow fried whole in deep olive oil. In one gleeful gulp...
...prayer. The triangle, Wright believes, is "the symbol of aspiration." ¶Pictures of a house Wright built in Phoenix last year for one of his sons. Made of concrete blocks, it looks like a snail shell somewhat flattened and supported on stilts. Says Wright: "It is in a citrus-orchard district and the orange trees make the lawn for the house. The slowly rising ramp reveals the surrounding mountains and gives security to the occupants...
...nonviolence; Tolstoy tried to forget Chekhov's atheism and artistic refinement. Then each went his way, Tolstoy to further brooding and writing on man's rejection of his God-given destiny, Chekhov to those triumphs of human vivisection, The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard...