Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former military barracks in Havana. It is the pride of the Castro government; more than 10,000 Cubans study there, taking primary, high-school and technical-school courses. An art instructor laid it on the line: "Children don't have prejudices. They are like fruit on the tree, ready to be plucked when ripe." On the walls were student sketches of Castro with peace doves, Castro standing atop the globe with a radiant smile, Castro at the Bay of Pigs invasion, a defiant David facing a hideous U.S. Goliath. A reporter asked if art was giving way to politics...
Black, white, black...a rhythm ripples in the sun, pounds in steaming, stinking shacks, dances in the blood. Reality is kaleidoscopic in the black belt. Sometimes one's vision changes with it. A crooked man climbed a crooked tree on a crooked hill. Somewhere, in the midst of the past, a tenor sang of valleys lifted up and hills made low. Death at the heart of life, and life in the midst of death. The tree of life is indeed a Cross...
...project. "A city is not just a collection of stores and homes and shops," said Lady Bird. "It is a place for people to live and, hopefully, it is a place where they can live the good life." Then, hefting a chrome-plated shovel, she planted a Japanese cherry tree. When a few citizens wondered aloud how the cherry tree could be expected to last through a bitter Peoria winter, Mrs. Everett Dirksen, whose husband once practiced law in Peoria, uttered the final word. "If Lady Bird planted this tree,"said Mrs. Dirksen,"it will survive...
Last week, asked on TV when he thought Congress would adjourn, Ev replied: "I could say, 'Get your Thanksgiving turkey now,' or 'Buy the trimmings for your Christmas tree.' We have some vitality and if 14(b) is going to be dished up, I can assure you that there is going to be an extended discussion." In his office are some 3,000 newspaper editorials opposing repeal, and, says Ev, "every one will be read into the Congressional Record." Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has planned no round-the-clock, filibuster-busting sessions. "At some point...
...wenbräu when he has a beer." As one way to persuade him, Löwenbräu this Christmas will market in the U.S. a blue-and-gold foil-wrapped case of 24 bottles. Americans will thus be able to have their own Decemberfest beside the Christmas tree...