Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Anderson has created a very peculiar outdoor set with a tree that looks sugar-coated; his outdoor settings are quietly effective. Lewis Smith's costumes are once again absolutely splendid...
...mother of Dante Alighieri, not long before his birth, had a dream in which her son, having eaten the berries of a laurel tree, grew up and was miraculously transformed into a shimmering peacock...
Bennington can be tough. About half of the girls who enter as freshmen have dropped out, transferred, or been gently "counseled out" before graduation. For the survivors, learning can be exciting. Bennington girls have, in fact, been spotted reading poetry by flashlight while perched in a tree. Philosopher-Lawyer Bloustein, who in his own education tended toward the "interdisciplinary development that John Dewey suggested," looks forward to presiding over a school where "an individual can involve himself in two or more distinct disciplines." He will teach at least one course himself. "Ideas are the thing," he says. "At Bennington, even...
...landscapes typical of the region. His Saviour is not the emaciated, sublimely anguished figure of his colleagues, but pasta-fed and plump, his saints more spirited than spiritual. His chubby cherubs often pout like naughty children; in St. Anthony of Padua they hold up a garland from a lemon tree which then, as now, grew on the shores of nearby Lake Garda...
Welfaring Natives. The capital city of Kuwait, a mud-walled, back-desert town before 1946, when the country's oilfields were first tapped for export, is now a modern city. It has broad, tree-lined boulevards, starkly modern office and apartment buildings and 2.3 window air conditioners (some placed in mud walls) for every resident. Kuwaitis have no taxes, receive free education and medical service, pay as little as $1.40 a month for modern, government-erected housing. Anyone who needs employment is hired by the government, often in such make-work jobs as operating automatic elevators and opening...