Word: tannenbaum
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...tree. But the Walsh men are not outdoorsmen; firmly suburban, we're at most screened-in-porch men. So by cutting down the yule tree, my dad meant climbing into the attic and bringing down the tinsel-covered bits of plastic and tubing, then assembling them into something resembling Tannenbaum form. Yes, though it shames me to say it now, we were a faux-fir family...
...great baseball player, and we don't think of special schools for gymnasts or tennis prodigies as élitist--a charge already leveled against the Davidson Academy. But giftedness on the playing field and giftedness in, say, a lab aren't so different. As Columbia education professor Abraham Tannenbaum has written, "Giftedness requires social context that enables it." Like a muscle, raw intelligence can't build if it's not exercised...
Like Yule logs, mistletoe and roasting chestnuts? Well, a lot of people don't. As we head toward Christmas 2005, some cheeky nontraditionalists are already wreaking havoc, upending long-standing notions of Santa, Frosty and even the stalwart Tannenbaum...
...also the average price for a genuine Tannenbaum in Germany...
Festooning an evergreen with ornaments is one of the universal customs of the season. Germany can claim credit for the modern version of the Tannenbaum, and Queen Victoria's German-born consort, Prince Albert, helped popularize the practice in Britain and beyond. But evergreen trees, wreaths and garlands were also used by the ancient Egyptians, Chinese and Hebrews to symbolize eternal life. So whatever your reason for deciding to bring a bit of the forest into your home this season, if you're in the market for a 1.8-m pine, balsam or fir, here's what you can expect...