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Environmentalists and aesthetics alike are clamoring to the defense of three troubled pear trees on Holyoke Street, which may be uprooted in the wake of this year’s renovations to the Hasty Pudding building...
...barely larger than a sickroom, but its travel books intrigued some famous tourists, including Edith Sitwell and W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bowen and E.M. Forster, who praised the author's "sensitiveness, visual and tactile." The style-struck critic Cyril Connolly described Welch's prose as ripening "like an October pear that measures every hour of sunshine against the inevitable frost...
Turning his cruiser into Perry Turner's tractor shop, Chambliss shifts gears and shares his dreams for Bradford, of the town's becoming a draw for the weekend arts-and-crafts crowd, its streets lined with majestic Bradford pear trees. But the $500,000 annual town budget and a 50-year-old water system are holding back development. Bradford's patrol cars have 35-year-old radars, and Chambliss came home from Iraq to find a mere $820 in the department kitty for new purchases. "I'm not going to talk down the war," says the police chief, a staunch...
...desert. "Given the rate the desert is being gobbled up by people like us, my feeling is we need to put some back," she says, standing on her porch and pointing to the plants in her yard. "I put in native plants only--ocotillo, Arizona rosewood, desert willow, prickly pear. I start them with a little water, but soon they will survive on their...
Another subtle but intriguing text-cum-visual art trick is the parallel placement of Klimt’s “Pear Tree” and a decorated, meter-long text box featuring another Hofmannsthal quote designed to emphasize the importance of images and words and how they interact with each other...