Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...description, inflicting no heavy judgements on the reader. Gifford's unease with civilization never, through Hough's style, becomes condemnation; it can at most be the natural sum of the man's observations. There is nothing intemperate about Hough's writing, and his metaphor is artless. A phrase like "fleecy globs" is used once to characterize autopsied brains, later morning smoke-clouds in Boston...
...parsley and oregano-to which most gourmets would add rosemary, savory, sage, saffron, sassafras, tarragon, mint, chives, dill, lemon verbena, marjoram, fennel, sorrel, chervil, coriander, cumin, caraway and celery seed. From ajowan to zedoary, there are hundreds of other herbs available, in 17th century Herbalist John Parkinson's phrase, "for use and delight." To the delight of the vast army of health-food enthusiasts who use herbs, most of them are grown organically without chemical fertilizers or sprays...
Amoral Pleasure. When Englishmen of Smith's generation (he is now 44) started looking to America, what caught their eye was less the painterly heroics of abstract expressionism than the "media landscape"-to borrow a phrase of the day-from which Pop art was sprouting. Though as a painter he was not interested in the icons of popular culture, Smith was fascinated by its mechanics, particularly by what happened to color and form in reproduction. The green in a color ad was not like grass; it was mint green, menthol green, a hue of such insinuating and saturated lushness...
...seashore, the woods were full of wild game and the waters of cod, carp, shad and salmon. Life was tough and dangerous but self-sufficient. What now seems amaz ing about this hardy era was the immense national feeling of self-confidence-the feeling, summed up in the phrase still imprinted on the back of every dollar bill, that America was a "new order of the ages." Toward the impressive contemporary Europe of Beethoven, Hegel, Napoleon and Goethe, the rude frontiersman was patronizing: his own land was the democratic future, free of the Old World's privileges and wars...
...more Americans than ever were braving blisters, bites and backaches to hear the babble of clear streams and have night skies as a ceiling-to savor, in Thoreau's phrase, "life near the bone where it is sweetest." And despite all the rush and crowding, those with stamina and imagination were still not too late to find adventure in tranquil places...