Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times, he will burst into a sedate White House tea, plant a kiss squarely on Lady Bird's forehead and loudly announce, "I love you." On a warm Washington evening, the two may saunter out of the White House, head for the grassy darkness beneath a giant tree. There Lady Bird may lie down with her arms stretched over her head. Lyndon may sprawl beside her, propped up on his elbow so that he can look into her face, and they talk quietly...
Some lived in Spanish castles and French cháteaux so opulently furnished that even the chamber pots were made of silver. Nearly every tree on the pampas was laboriously planted by man. The ultimate status symbol was a eucalyptus-tree drive leading up to the manse, and some of them ran straight as a string for seven miles...
...drunken father, and Jim, the runaway slave. The role of Huck is sung in a reedy voice by towheaded, freckle-faced Franz Elkins, a 14-year-old Austrian TV actor who won the part over several singers from the Vienna Boys Choir partly because of his prowess at tree climbing. Lys Symonette's husband Randolph, an American baritone currently with the Düsseldorf Opera, is Huck's coarsely villainous father. He and Huck dangle their fishing lines in the Danube to whistle and sing a tuneful folk ditty called Catfish Song...
...American imagination has largely outgrown the old New England symbols of summerhouse and Christmas tree, kites and the Fourth of July. In adhering to them, Scott will not change the course of modern poetry, nor is he likely to serve as an inspiration to the younger poets. Rut he can often teach moderns a thing or two about love and other excitements they have lost or unlearned. As he wrote in an earlier volume...
AFRICA. You can sit in a tree house sipping cool drinks or stand in a gravel clearing surrounded by African huts and cages containing monkeys and listen to the jungle drums and watch warrior dances...