Word: treeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...list is R.A. d'Hulst's four volume edition of Jordaen's Drawings. My second Christmas book is Archibald MacLeish's The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn printed by Harvard Press. Also, Nicholson and Troutman's Letters of Virginia Woolf--I expect to find them under my tree Christmas morning...
...carol in front of the governor-general's house, although my reading of the whole thing is that the govenor-general and his kids probably slip in a few carols on Christmas eve, without making a bog deal of it or anything. Maybe they have a little Christmas tree, nothing pretentions, but if I know my governor-generals they don't just let the day slip by. I mean, the governor-general probably gets Christmas cards from people he knows back home, and for all I know he may even send some out himself, with a Tahitian theme or something...
...crisis it can cause among kids who are not white or Anglo-Saxon or Protestant. Little black kids find themselves on the knee of a big fat white man with a bushy white beard. And little Jewish kids mut live with the suspicion, even while they are trimming a tree or opening a Christmas present, that somewhere in this story of brotherly love there's a villain, and it appears to be themselves...
...Jewish kid growing up in a heavily WASP milieu, I always had a stormy love-hate relationship with Christmas. I had a passion for all the romantic trappings--the wreaths and the holly and the trees and the tinsel--but somehow I could never let myself go completely. When I was seven or so, I fixated on the idea of a tree, tall and green and smelling of pine forests. I nagged my mother about it so much that she finally went out and bought me something that was two feet high and silver and smelled of plastic. Somehow that...
...factor hampering the Crimson in the first half was Brian Banks, the cagers' premiere big man, riding the bench saddled with three fouls. This allowed Rollins to control the boards--the Tree grabbed 22 rebounds in the course of the night...