Word: treeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Germany's defeat began to seem certain. Lucien (Pierre Blaise), still in his teens, works in a hospital ward. The cries and murmurs of pain from the wounded cause him to turn toward the window, to the summer sunlight. He sees a bird in a nearby tree, singing, and with a certain glee, kills it with his slingshot. It is almost a reflexive action, without real significance to Lucien...
...Diary of Adam and Eve is a remake of a not-so-old but still forgotten Broadway musical, The Apple Tree. It's only virtue is the price of a ticket--$1. Boston Repertory Theater, corner of Marlborough and Berkley Street...
...into compact enclaves, like blacks squeezed into downtown Detroit or the Italians ringed off by expressways and skyscrapers in Boston's North End. Ideological differences take the form of squabbles between Democrats and Republicans in the House Ways and Means Committee. The American future is mirrored in the tree-lined streets of Bethesda and Grosse Point and Scarsdale, insulated from the glare of the crime lights on the other side of the city line...
...peacock that lands on the town fountain one gray afternoon and spreads his plumage in elegant display. There are family chronicles: a meal that turns into an intramural brawl, a trip in the country with an uncle on loan from the local funny farm, who climbs a tree, refuses to come down, and howls, "I want a woman!" until the nuns and doctors come to take him away...
...moment of revelation. It happened when he visited the unspoiled Nubian village of Gharb Aswan on the Upper Nile. What he saw there, he later wrote, was "a way of building that was a natural growth in the landscape, as much a part of it as the palm tree." Sight led to insight. Fathy recognized that traditional architecture, unlike modern industrial architecture, is compatible with "God's environment" of nature, climate and materials. He never looked back...