Word: patches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Garden," burbled Victorian Poet Thomas Edward Brown, "is a lovesome thing, God wot!" In pinchpenny times like today, a patch of home-growing vegetables can also be economical, ecologically desirable, even chic. In fact, millions of Americans will be out hoeing and sowing this year in the biggest land rush since the victory-garden boom of World...
Nonetheless, even in California, where legend has it that anything will grow if it is merely watered, aspiring green-thumbers are warned by experts that a successful garden is no whimsical undertaking. The first step is to pick a fertile, well-drained patch that gets as much sun as possible. For the average family, advises Derek Fell, director of the National Garden Bureau and author of a new book, How to Plant a Vegetable Garden, a plot 15 ft. by 25 ft. can save $250 or more above its investment in seeds (about $12) and tools. Fell recommends 18 varieties...
...Ross and lona Woodside last week were listening not only to the alarums of Gerald Ford on Indochina, but also to the first whispers of a tardy spring. It was clear that spring was more welcome. It will soon green the patch of Iowa prairie where they have lived and farmed for 64 years, bring the wild flowers to their slope of black soil with a quiet excitement that will dwarf Ford's perplexing insistence on more war in Southeast Asia...
...density, a thickness of imagined substance, that is quite old-masterly. The flesh is loose, but it is all structure too; and when the form beneath it slides away, obliterated by a wipe of the rag, Bacon can instantly tighten the image back with one detail - an eye, a patch of spiky hair like hedgehog quills. To a degree few other painters can rival, Bacon convinces you that every stroke and drip counts, that they carry a weight of ethical decision, so that representation is not a matter of filling-in but rather a continual reinvention of the motif...
Burgess might have risked one more quote from Hopkins. Man, one poem said, "This Jack, joke, poor potsherd/ Patch, matchwood, immortal diamond/ Is immortal diamond." Otherwise, what's so wrong with sun-kissed clockwork oranges? ∙Timothy Foote