Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where the tree tops glisten And children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow...
...Sycamore tells of a postman who, tired of walking and sick to death of people, decides he would like to become a tree. He plants himself in the backyard, and begins by catching cold and being hooted at by the neighbors. Then he grows bark, roots and leaves, ends by becoming a tree...
...play is told in homely, backyard terms, with no attempt at cosmic symbolisms. It displays some clever touches. It provides some amusing moments, chiefly at the expense of the gabbling, skeptical townspeople (though their skepticism can hardly be termed extreme). It enables Cinemactor Stuart Erwin to perform, man and tree, very likably. But the play, with its single frail idea, lacks movement and variety. Critic Sir Leslie Stephen once said that certain things are interesting only because they actually happened. That applies, on the whole, to men turning into trees...
...prayer and a life jacket are just about all there is to rely on when a torpedoed seaman takes the big jump from his sinking ship. Kapok-the silky, white, feather-soft down from the pods of the kapok tree-is the buoyant filling of most life jackets, many life rafts and lifeboat airtight compartments. It can support up to 35 times its own weight. In peacetime, kapok's biggest use was in mattresses, upholstery padding and the like. Most (and the best) kapok came from Java. The Japs put a stop to that. Now, as demand soars, rigidly...
...only with married life. From the specialized madnesses of the bedroom and boudoir it is only a stroke of the Addams' hand to universal madness. Drawn and Quartered includes his drawings of and that haunting simile of the mind's disintegration: ski tracks divided by a large tree...