Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ALPHABET TREE, by Leo Lionni (Pantheon; $3.95), is tops on the list of picture books that teach as well as amuse. The letters, coached by a word bug and a purple caterpillar, cling to the tree and to one another to say "something important-peace...
AMONG the crowds of holiday - visitors to the Exhibition Center in the TIME & LIFE Building these days, many people will find the show familiar. By now, it is almost as much a part of the season in Manhattan as the great tree that is decorated every December around the corner in Rockefeller Plaza. Year after year, people come back to see the Nativity as portrayed by Renaissance masters-25 color photographs of delicate accuracy, blown up to the size of the originals. Carols from the 15th to the 18th century provide background music, and visitors can also listen...
Like most arists today Mirko rejects attempts, similar to those of Coney Island portraitists, at a frozen duplication of reality. The reality, he feels, is better than a copy because in the duplication you lose "the warmth of a cheek, or the movement of a tree." For art to equal nature it must "create its own magic reality...
Mirko believes in the vertical and the horizontal because "the vertical is from nature; it is man, tree. It is the active and the horizontal is the passive, like death...
Weinstein, an amiable giant at 6'5", 235 lbs., has ideal size for a pro tight end, and the scouts have been following his progress with interest. A crushing blocker, "the Tree" has excellent speed and sticky hands. He was Yale's top receiver last year, catching 16 passes for 318 yards and four touchdowns...