Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tail pipes to microwave antennas might seem too diverse to manage, but it suits the wide-ranging interests of the company's president. In addition to running 87-year-old Maremont, which was founded by his father, he has interests in paper and in a maker of Christmas-tree balls, has backed a Broadway musical (The Most Happy Fella), and owns a chunk of the Saturday Review. His collection of modern art contains Dubuffet, Braque, Leger, Gris, Pollock, Arp and Kline, is valued at more than...
...leaders like Nyerere and Nkrumah insist that they cannot afford the luxury of dissent and opposition. Many argue, by way of rationalization, that the one-party state is a modern adaptation of traditional tribal society, in which the individual was free to ex press his viewpoint under the baobab tree, but had to accept the tribe's (or chief's) decision once rendered. And indeed a certain amount of discussion filters up from the ranks to the top in parties like TANU, even in Nkrumah's monolithic Convention People's Party. Osagyefo recently told a visitor...
...Hahnlosers, Herr Doktor Arthur and Frau Hedy, were 33 and 30 when they bought their first work, Ferdinand Hodler's Little Cherry Tree. Thereafter, although the Hahnlosers were not rich, they bought contemporary art steadily until the walls barely showed through the paintings. By 1924, buying most of the time directly from artists, they owned Renoirs, Bonnards, Vuillards, Vallottons, Cezannes, Manguins, Hod-lers, Rodins, Maillols, Redons, Matisses, Rouaults, Utrillos, and just about every other French or Swiss artist that mattered at the time...
...make a flawless transition from portrayers to portrayed. And he has succeeded in making dewy, sentimental lines like "my bride will dress in sunlight with rain for her wedding veil" sound plausible. He has skillfully used the mute (Lorenzo Weisman) in his various roles as a wall, a tree, a bricklaver, and nature...
...weeks ago, said she hoped to return to campaign shortly before the election on March 10. And longtime loser Harold Stassen of Philadelphia managed to add a little something to the campaign by running newspaper ads claiming that "in our forest of presidential timber, Harold Stassen is the tallest tree...