Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plots, fenced in with any stray piece of wood or wire. Kids romp in the wide-rutted clay streets, while fathers & mothers are off rebuilding the city, and an old babushka hangs out the washing on a line stretched over a gooseberry bush from a young peach tree to a young cherry tree. Even in the middle of the city, chickens scrabble among the ruins...
...jagged family quarrels; a touching drunk scene between the two aging ex-soldiers; Ethel's silent, terrible way of absorbing bitter news. The real hero of the film is time, as designated on the face of every player, in the growth, bloom and final bleakness of a fruit tree in the backyard, and by the deathly resonance of the empty house as the family leaves...
Another of the book's three stories, Cat Up a Tree, is a short and exhilarating sketch of a fire engine's mission on a bright windy morning, "a witches' morning, a morning of little devils and hats popping off, of flurry and fluster and sudden shrill laughter...
...times." Having overthought it, the Conways went back last winter, are now ensconced again on their favorite island, Santiago. They remembered the raptures of a friend: "Santiago air is cool and fresh, it rains plenty, and everywhere are pigs. Here is a pig, there is a pig, under every tree is a pig! It is just like paradise...
Only an incurably sentimental alumnus would deny that there was room for improvement at Charlottesville. Few U.S. campuses could match the beauty of the classic, tree-shaded University of Virginia "Grounds," laid out by Founder Thomas Jefferson. But 80-year-old Jefferson, matching the workmen through his spyglass from nearby Monticello, had dreamed of a Charlottesville that would be the "capstone of public education in Virginia"-a university for all the ablest citizens of the state, rich or poor. What it had largely become, said its critics, was an expensive finishing school for young...