Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LEARNING TREE, by Gordon Parks. Like Author Parks, the hero of this novel grew up in the Negro part of a small town in Kansas. A kind of cross between Tom Sawyer and Native Son, the book is a blend of sunny memories of life in a large, affectionate family and the brooding fears of nameless violence waiting around almost every corner...
...born at Elmwood on February 22, 1819. As a boy, the story goes, he planted a single horse chestnut "which he saw grow large and handsome in his lifetime." Probably, young Lowell planted horse chestnuts all over the grounds before one grew. In any case the tree, still large and handsome, lives on, just to the right of the house...
...lawn of his country house; Elbridge Gerry staying up into the late hours, poring over maps by candlelight and contorting electoral districts into weird configurations; James Russell Lowell leading lively discussions in the sitting room, gazing out the window from time to time at the horse chestunt tree he raised from seed; A. Kingsley Porter holding seminars in Fine Arts high on the third floor; Mrs. Porter interviewing visitors to her gloomy mansion and fending off the sewer installers; Franklin Ford smoking his pipe behind the desk that was once a dining room table; and, surely, future Deans supervising Faculty...
...Able to concentrate again, Nicklaus regained his steady brilliance, was able to open a two-stroke lead by the end of the first nine. Palmer managed to pull even on the twelfth hole, but then on the 13th he punched a two iron smack into a tree and wound up with a double bogey that ended all chances...
...dumb," Paul said: "Let us ex plain the points of doctrine that are still the object of controversy. We do not wish either to absorb or to humiliate all this great flowering of the Oriental churches, but yes, we do desire that this flowering be regrafted onto the one tree of the one church of Christ...