Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Have Lived in Arcadia is a play of straightforward meaning smothered by form and language that is far too complex. The external "story" (using this world is vaguely analogous to speaking of the Bible's "plot") shows a man, representing the artist, or creator, fleeing from the temptation and challenge of fame. The artist goes in self-exile to a desolate "honest island" with a woman who is the spirit, within himself, of learning and self-improvement. But also within him is the spirit of a former mistress, fame, still calling him to creation. Using the vitality and comfort...
...tiny vineyards, minute garden patches and chicken yards that speckle a Trieste hillside. Well armed with the tools of the surveyor's profession, a detachment of the border commission in charge of dividing Trieste between Italy and Yugoslavia arrived one day last week at the two-acre plot of Luca Eller, a 65-year-old farmer of Italian extraction. The commissioners discovered that the line laid out in the Trieste agreement would cut directly through the trim, two-story red house where Eller lived with his wife, his two sons and his two grandchildren...
...plot revolves around a handsome wide-smiling, fatherly ex-general (Dean Jagger) whose ownership of a nice old white inn in Vermont (remember the inn in Holiday Inn?) is endangered by business conditions. Two of his former men (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye), who since the war have made a big success in show business, come to his rescue. They throw a benefit at the inn, and call on all the old man's old soldiers to help out. Meanwhile, they are able to do a good turn for a sister act (Rosemary Cloonev and Vera-Ellen...
...trained by Soviet military intelligence to be persistent, and he learned his lesson well. In 1945 the former code clerk in Ottawa's Russian embassy exposed to the Canadian government a Red ring that was stealing atomic secrets. In 1948 his adventures gave Hollywood the excuse and the plot for a vivid anti-Soviet spy thriller, Iron Curtain. Last July he published a powerful novel, The Fall of a Titan, about Russian officialdom, and how one of its high-ups got cut down. Operation Manhunt, a sort of sequel to Iron Curtain, is still another piece of pretty effective...
...arboretum is not an intrinsically exciting affair, at least for laymen. It usually consists of a plot full of different kinds of trees, shrubs, plants, an herbarium for storage of pressed leaves, and a library filled with taxanomical tomes and like readings. The Arnold garden's distinction lies in its being one of the world's best. Begun in 1872 with money provided by a New Bedford Merchant, land supplied by Harvard, and genius provided by the first Arnold Professor, Charles Sprague Sargent, it has acquired one of the most varied and complete collections of plants in the world...