Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GETZ/GILBERTO (Verve) is the still-selling smash hit in which the Brazilian father of bossa nova, Singer Joao Gilberto, was upstaged by his softspoken, hitherto unknown wife Astrud singing The Girl from Ipanema. The big bestseller sprouted a number of smaller bestsellers, a kind of family tree of albums...
...Princess Aly Khan) Guinness, half-brother of Aga Khan IV and since 1955 husband of Countess Dolores von Furstenberg, who also happens to be his stepsister (Dolores' mother, Gloria, married Patrick's father in 1951); of injuries sustained when his custom-built Iso-Rivolta plowed into a tree at 110 m.p.h.; near Turtig, Switzerland...
Another is a story of how Frances Marshal Lyautey, anxious to plant a tree, was told by his gardener that there was no hurry-it would not flower for 100 years. "In that case," said the marshal, "plant it this afternoon." Kennedy, concludes Sorensen, "believed in planting trees this afternoon...
...Tree Tenements. They were elegant and graceful in flight, slow and stupid-seeming on the ground, and fatally gregarious. When they settled in to feed or rest, they would funnel down, out of the sky, filling every branch and foothold, stacking up on one another's backs a dozen deep, splintering weak branches, toppling whole dead trees to the ground. They nested in only slightly less congestion, spreading out over scores of square miles, making every tree a kind of arboreal tenement...
Apparently, every Wellesley class has a class color, and a class motto, and a class racing shell (for use on Tree Day, but that's another story), and a class tree, and a class flower, and probably a class ice cream flavor. Everyone at Wellesley is expected to know these things, and a girl would probably be put on pro if she didn't collapse with laughter at the mention of lemon juice or larch bark. All of which is a bit puzzling to an outsider...