Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first novel, Letting Go (1962), when one sunny day the middle-aged Fay Silberman "goes outside their place in South Orange and her husband is being driven all over the lawn in their power mower. He's dead in his seat, . . . a horrible thing. He crashed into a tree with that damn machine." Yup, having swallowed the American dream whole, Roth's Jews--like so many minorities before them--cough themselves to death as the hidden bones lodge in their throats...
...anyway, with so many better possibilities around? As one possible successor, Lockard proposes the oriental tree shrew, which is readily tamed, breeds promiscuously throughout the year and, on the evolutionary map, lies nearer to man than does the rat. To focus on the rat, when less than 1% of all species has ever been impounded in a laboratory, says Lockard, is like examining only the earth and then generalizing about the universe...
...honor is all there is at stake, the Pandas might be barking up the wrong tree...
...Tubman's own annual salary as chief executive is $25,000. Agriculture has so far been given short shrift in economic planning. Graft and corruption abound, and Tubman's True Whig Party permits no organized opposition. In that sense, Tubman is the traditional African patriarch, the great tree under which all healthy opposition wilts. He is as sensitive to criticism as he is alert to potential opponents (there is no free press), and he may very likely be Liberia's President for as long as he chooses...
...indeed. John Steinbeck Jr., 22, son of the late novelist, has dropped out into a dingy Saigon flat in order to follow his yen for Zen. His teacher: Nguyen Thanh Nam, a mystic generally known as the "Coconut Monk," after his habit of meditating perched atop a palm tree in the middle of an island in the Mekong River. Young Steinbeck and his guru have pursued the cause of peace by presenting U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker with a peeled coconut, and were last seen marveling at the white elephant at the Saigon...