Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...degrading?or the proof of manhood. He may have been taught that eating people is wrong; then again, he may relish them. He may believe in the lofty concept of one god who lives on a nearby mountain; or he may believe there is a god in every tree in the forest...
...loyalties to the larger loyalties of nationhood. The task is formidable, and not only because of the weight of tradition. In many ways, as M.I.T. Professor Harold Isaacs points out, "Africa is the most inhospitable of the major continents to human existence." For all the image of a banana-tree civilization, with food for the reaching, most Africans are permanently undernourished and physically below par or diseased. Life expectancy is barely 40 years at best. Illiteracy is the highest in the world...
...playlet cycle under the collective title of Kiss My .... He believes that drama should be made accessible to people within their daily living patterns. Accordingly, his latest one-acter, The Nudist Campers Grow and Grow, goes on at Cafe Ambiance at lunch hour. Each patron is given a tree leaf if he cares to join the nude campers. A few have...
...TREE ON FIRE by Alan Sillitoe. 451 pages. Doubleday...
...these questions to the loud brassy music of any political convention, and place it against the palm tree-lined streets of broiling Miami Beach with hotel after hotel looking like a pastel copy of William James Hall and you have the Republican National Convention. It is almost festive enough to make one forget we are a nation fighting on two fronts...