Word: seeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, out on bail awaiting trial, and in seclusion on the farm, Vernon Richter cocked his ear at the sound of tractors, looked out to find 30 men with 20 tractors arriving from nearby farms. While his neighbors helped him plow 100 acres and seed them with corn and soybeans, 15 women spread a potluck lunch, had a friendly good time. The plowing done, Richter tried to thank his departing neighbors, but broke down. Said Farmer Harold Hearstad: "He's a nice fellow and a good worker. He just worked too hard...
...RIPENING SEED (186 pp.)-Co-leffe-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...Raymond Radiguet in Devil in the Flesh, francois Sagan in Bonjour Tristesse. In 1923, the late great Colette turned her fiftyish hand to the subject, produced a luminous and sensuously intuitive study of adolescent awakening. Republished in the U.S. for the first time in a quarter-century. The Ripening Seed has also taken scenario form as 1954's sensitively made but ineptly titled French film. The Game of Love. For the 16-and 15-year-old hero and heroine of this novel, love is about as far from a game as the coming-of-age rites of primitive tribes...
...Ripening Seed is drenched in a pagan delight with the moods, sights and fecundities of nature. If the novel has a drawback, it stems from what might be called Colette's gland-directed theory of personality, a tendency to reduce all thought to desire, all spirit to sensation. But rarely has the self-contained world of adolescence burst its pod under the touch of so loving yet unsentimental and sharp-eyed a gardener...
Harvey Love has not yet decided whether to send his crew to the Olympic trials at Syracuse at the end of June. Meanwhile, two graduates and a sophomore will represent the Crimson at the competition. Sophomore Bart Thomas and Randy Seed '54, on leave from the Army, will compete in the singles event. Louis McCagg '52 will probably row in a double scull...