Word: undergrowth
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...William Humphrey. A carefully written story of a young man who bitterly discovers the dead rot at the heart of his parents' lives. The book offers a tense evocation of small-town Texas life and a sense of personal tragedy that borders on myth. Faulkner without the undergrowth...
...took Author Hunter only 17 days as a substitute high school teacher in The Bronx to give him the makings of The Blackboard Jungle (TIME, Oct. 11, 1954), a lurid assault on delinquency in big-city classrooms. His second novel, Second Ending, led him into the sickly undergrowth of drug addiction. In his latest fictional safari, Explorer Hunter's credentials are a bit more solid; he lived in a Long Island suburb for four years. What he still lacks are the credentials of the novelist-shortcomings that not even the theme of adultery can handily overcome...
...feed the public hunger for new pop names, U.S. record makers flail the musical undergrowth like beaters at a princely pheasant shoot, while fledgling pop singers break cover from behind lunch stands and dime-store counters, flutter out of laundry trucks and prizefighting rings. With luck, adroit promotion and an occasional touch of talent, some of the captured quarry end up making the kind of noises that set cash registers ajingle...
...Henderson's opinion, he does indeed presume, and soon there is the usual thrashing about in the undergrowth, and rather more than the usual slithering of crocodiles toward dainty feminine morsels. And when Heroine Grain says for what must surely be the thousandth time in this kind of picture. "I can make a bandage out of my petticoat," even the lion who is about to eat her looks...
...tree trunks, like the pillars of a dark and limitless cathedral. The ground itself was covered with a thick carpet of dead leaves and seedling trees. There was practically no earth visible, and certainly no grass or flowers. Up to a height of ten feet or so, a dense undergrowth of young trees and palms, but out of this wavy green sea of undergrowth a myriad tree trunks rose straight upward ... for 150 feet before they burgeoned into a solid canopy of green which almost entirely shut...