Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little village of Bebenhausen, in the French zone of Germany, Herr & Frau Stuckebrock lived a quiet life. Stucke-brock, 51, plowed and planted part of a onetime German Army parade ground nearby. His wife made Christmas tree decorations and other knickknacks from colored paper and pine cones. One night last week, a group of U.S., French and German police aroused them at midnight. Stuckebrock leaped for his coat. A German policeman stopped him before he got a poison vial. Under guard, the two former Nazi leaders were taken away...
...Linden Tree (by J. B. Priestley; produced by Maurice Evans) has been running in London for seven months. On Broadway last week it folded after seven performances...
...country that has its back to the wall is to put its shoulder to the wheel. But nobody listens much to the professor (likably, gently played by Cinemenace Boris Karloff). Nor on Broadway did anybody listen much to Mr. Priestley. England, being itself the hero of The Linden Tree, would understandably give it a hearing. But simply as playwriting it is talky and lifeless...
Saarinen's plans, drawn up with the help of his wife (a sculptor) and three aides, called for a tree-dotted, 80-acre area around the arch with two museums, an open-air theater, a tea terrace, a frontier village and five sculptural monuments. The arch itself, said proud St. Louisans, would mark their city like the Eiffel Tower or the Washington Monument...
Architects, Wright believes, should concern themselves as much with human aspirations as with human needs. "Organic" architecture, he concludes in the FORUM, must have "the integrity, where the human spirit is concerned, of a tree or a plant. It is that character in the buildings shown here that should interest...