Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have colors, a canvas, and I must express myself with purity.' " Once he had found his signature, he repeated it with joy. To those who criticized his variations on the nude and the interior, he replied: "No two fig leaves are alike, yet each one cries 'fig tree...
From several holes in the ground, one as large as 12 inches in diameter, De Lumley has deduced that the roof of the dwelling was supported by beams or tree trunks. The people who lived there may have been pre-Neanderthal men, like those who inhabited a cave discovered earlier in Nice...
Whoever said "a poem is never lovely as a tree" was talking through his hat. Archibald Mc-Leish's J.B., a poem for the stage, is a lot lovelier than most trees you're likely to run into. True, as rendered by the Lowell House Drama Society, it appears to have lost most of its leaves, and a couple of limbs seem ready for a fall, but the trunk is still there...
...instead searched for ways to win and, extravagantly endowed with talent, he found them. He became a professional basketball player with a showboating Negro team called the House of David, a songwriter whose tunes were broadcast on the networks, the author of a favorably reviewed autobiographical novel (The Learning Tree-TIME, Sept. 6, 1963) and the composer of six musical works that have been performed from Venice to Manhattan. He also became a photographer and, as a LIFE staffer since 1949, Parks has become famous for his photographic work in both the dark world of the Negro slum...
...lean, well-written memoir-some of which echoes material in The Learning Tree-Parks describes how often he came within an eyelash of choosing violence and raw, corrosive hatred as his weapons in the struggle for dignity. After a fight with three white toughs in St. Paul, Minn.-a battle that left him with a dozen scars from getting pitched through a plate-glass storefront-he reflected how the white man's brutality "was nudging me into a hatred of him." After his first walk through Harlem's streets, he was convinced that "Mister Ofay"-the white...