Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after day, in the shade of the great jacaranda tree outside the courthouse at Nyeri, an old woman squatted, moodily scratching the vermin beneath her filthy rags. Inside, on trial for his life before a British judge and a jury of three Kikuyu elders from his native village, was her son, Dedan Kimathi, 36, self-styled Field Marshal, Knight Commander of the African Empire, President of the Parliament of Kenya and Commander in Chief of the Land Liberation Army, the man once feared through all Kenya as the leader of some 10,000 Mau Mau terrorists...
...early in May when Ellen Moore, 22, a pretty young housewife, headed for the Child Welfare Clinic in the bleak Northumberland mining town of Wallsend. Two months pregnant, she had her 16-month-old firstborn, Paul, in his pram. As a truck carrying a load of tree trunks took a nearby corner, one of the lashings parted. A soft, log struck Mrs. Moore a glancing blow on the head, and she fell unconscious...
...alien to Simone Weil, who could not see why God, who is infinite, should create something "that is outside himself, that is not himself." The only way to bridge the contradiction, she felt, was through Christ on the Cross. "It is not by eating the fruit of a certain tree, as Adam thought, that one becomes the equal of God, but by going the way of the Cross." It is perhaps not too far-fetched to suggest that Simone Weil's obsession with becoming "the equal of God" was, on its less attractive side, a form of spiritual social...
Rated in the forefront of French art ever since she won first prize in sculpture at São Paulo's 1951 Bienal, Sculptress Richier, 52, does not see beauty as the world usually views it. Says she: "I am more attracted by the trunk of a dead tree than by an apple tree in full bloom." Along with such dissimilar sculptors as Swiss-born Alberto Giacometti and Brit ain's Henry Moore, Germaine Richier takes her stand as a Pygmalion-in-reverse. Rather than working inert sculptor's materials to the polished, lifelike perfection of idealized...
...writer copies to suit her. Lowney moves him along to "skits." What about? "A bird, a dog. a boy. a tree." Out of these literary acorns, feels Lowney. giant novels may grow. "I mark them and I write ideas all along the margins where they could develop, where they could get a stream of consciousness." Her marginalia are often crisp ("This becomes idiotic") and sometimes to the point ("You say his uniform was clean. This is the first time I've seen anyone in this story with any clothes on"). Says Tesch: "Lowney really helped me. She went through...