Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...watched the old men moving the furniture out into Dunster Street in the blue haze of the last, last afternoon. It was like all the other afternoons, only with less of the ordinary sounds. Yet what seemed to him a thrashing in the tree tops that was very unlike Spring made him half aware of a rushing, rumbling intermixture of sound and motion. There was the haste and tension of every exam period, yet there was something more. Something that could have been frightening except that it was mixed with a certain gasp of relief, a feeling that...
Other awards: Poet Robert Frost, for The Witness Tree; Esther Forbes, for her history, Paul Revere; Historian Samuel Eliot Morison, for his biography, Admiral of the Ocean Sea, a life of Columbus; Composer William Schuman, for Secular Cantata, No. 2, A Free Song...
Samuel Eliot Morison '08, and Robert Frost, noted New England poet, were Harvard's two winners of Pulitzer Prizes for 1942 as announced in New York yesterday. Morison was selected for his biography of Columbus while Frost was singled out for his volume of poetry entailed "A Witness Tree...
This mood had solid roots: many Americans wanted to see not year-old pictures of one gallant but pitifully meager raid, but fresh, day-old pictures of raid after raid that leveled Japan into a shambles where not an altar, not a paper house, not a cherry tree still stood whole, and where nothing moved in the ruins...
...perfect minor work it might have been. Its compact story naturally fits the screen, and it is squarely in Hollywood's open-air action tradition. So much of the picture is so good that its occasionally thoughtless details are magnified. Worst example: instead of using an ordinary tree for the lynching, the picture introduces a dramatized, super-real contraption drenched beyond recognition in Little Theater lighting...