Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reminiscing about all the sex and sinnin' that came out at a badman's trial for murder. Seems a Southern dandy (Laurence Harvey) and his wife (Claire Bloom) had been lured into a woodsy glen by a notorious Mexican bandit (Newman), who bound the husband to a tree and then raped the wife. Later, the husband was found dead and the case came to trial. Whether he was killed in a fair fight, murdered by his dishonored wife, or done in by his own hand, depends on which of the protagonists' testimonies can be believed...
...Classic Lines. The gods were more elaborately and profoundly explored in Cheever's Wapshot Chronicle. These stories are in his lesser mode. In fact, the stratagem of treating suburbia as if it were a sacred grove, with every flowering tree an imprisoned nymph, works best when it is worked least. One story, for instance, begins: "Larry Actaeon was built along classical lines . . ." and the reader, with the help of a mythological dictionary, recalls that Actaeon observed Diana at her bath and was punished by being turned into a stag and torn apart by hounds. All too patly, Larry Actaeon...
...final case in the Religions Department involves an instructor in oriental studies who spent much of his time sitting under a tree with his feet crossed, contemplating Holyoke Center...
...Tree. But there are as many vexations as blessings along the trail. Bill Miller sticks more or less faithfully to the same set speech-tempting his press coterie, who have heard it a few dozen times before, to catch up on lost sleep. In contrast, Humphrey's tongue drifts freely from the predistributed text. Having already sent their stories to meet some immutable deadline, the correspondents listen in helpless frustration to these often-quotable embroideries. (The speech text: "And what did Senator Goldwater say? He said no." The Humphrey departure: "And where was Senator Goldwater? He was under...
...meadow by the River Cherwell, St. Catherine's low, flat roofs (maximum height: 30 ft.) blend with, rather than dominate, a horizon defined by trees (see opposite page). Only the high, spare bell tower-two planes joined by minimal struts-provides collegiate symbolism. Inside the grounds the pattern is yellow-beige brick (Jacobsen had several walls knocked down and laid again), sweeps of floor-to-ceiling glass and marble-smooth concrete beams-all interspersed with gardens, courts and a reflecting pool. The quadrangle is a rond-point of greensward offering a single, artfully off-centered tree...