Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...costume you show; but oftener in the sin ropa. Several years ago she presented herself on canvas as a stark naked girl standing in the garden of her family home in Coyoacan-in the outskirts of Mexico City and which she still owns-with miniatures from her family tree wafting nebulously overhead ... In many ways she is much more exciting .. . than her husband...
...Post Facto. In Seattle, a magnolia tree was finally planted in Magnolia Park...
...waves his stick at a 14-or 15-year-old prostitute who has strayed from her normal beat; or he wakes a P.W. just returned from Russia who is sleeping in a doorway-merely to check his papers. But after a while you will see him stop by a tree on a corner. He will remove a score of little slips of paper pinned there. They read: "Want bread, offer German cigarettes . . ." "Will sell linen tablecloth and curtains for money or food . .." ". . . Discharged P.W. wants pair of pants; gives money or potatoes." This is illegal barter, but every neighborhood...
Such writing tends to be symbolie to the point where everything is a symbol and nothing is real, which is a point of meaninglessness. It tends to deal with undefined moods, hazily defined characters, and ponderously defined natural trivia, e.g., "They sat on an ironwood tree's outcropping roots, roots tangled like gray fingers in wild interplay with Medusa's hair." It tends to make the reader suspect that the author is sentimentally fond of writing, but unfortunately finds himself with nothing or little to say about people or events. Generally, although not necessarily, authors with something to say take...
...indeed, differentiates matter from energy? When science can answer these questions, it may be able to turn any kind of matter, at will, into its energy equivalent. But the new cyclotron, powerful though it be, may not guide man at once to this topmost fruit on Science's Tree of Knowledge...