Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elsewhere on the grounds are a tree house, a jungle gym, barrels, sandbox, swings and a playhouse-a veritable Disneyland for the Kennedy children and their lucky friends. As a menagerie, the White House rivals the Washington...
...Then the review said that this was the best book on New York youth since A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." Miller shrugged helplessly. "Maybe it will get some books sold in Pensacola...
...best. Her favorite carol: Silent Night; her favorite Christmas benevolence: "To invite a stranger from a foreign country, who would be alone, to our Christmas dinner"; her favorite Christmas cards: "Adlai Stevenson's beautifully illuminated messages'"; her favorite ornament: "A little angel that has topped our family tree since my children were babies"; and her favorite Christmas recipe: a bowl of eggnog, laced with four jiggers of brandy...
...press-maligned monopolist (Henry Daniell). The wet cardboard will not ignite. Only Charles Boyer, the actor, ignites. He is a fountain of eternal charm, a foxy grandpa of stage presence, an animated bundle of Continental gestures who makes the typical U.S. actor seem about as vibrant as a hat tree...
Unveiling a Tree. In the course of his career, Goodman has made his anarchist's pitch from many platforms: as novelist and short-story writer, poet and playwright, community planner, sociologist, psychotherapist, teacher (mostly at Columbia University). He began his fulminations against organized society in his fiction, in which a jumble of ideas is loosely arranged into plots. All the characters talk the same Goodmanese, part slang, part preaching. "Allow me. I will explain it to you" is a typical conversational gambit. Horatio Alger, the hero of Goodman's biggest novel, The Empire City, pilfers all the cards...