Word: verdant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Contemptuous Enclave. The Finzi-Continis are proud, pretentious, cultivated Jews, living in world-weary isolation behind the walls of their vast estate, which survives like a verdant enclave in the provincial city of Ferrara. Father Ermanno is an aging scholar-gentleman who has passed his life in obscure antiquarian studies, and who regards the Fascists with courtly contempt. Mother Olga is an aristocratic wraith who lives only to mourn the death of her six-year-old child. Son Alberto is a languid dilettante. Daughter Micol is a beautiful, spirited intellectual who cannot bring herself to escape the family...
...watering hole of local millionaires. With evening temperatures 10° cooler than the low lying parts of the state and, more important, a dry climate, Kerrville is highly regarded by those wanting to escape the oppressive humidity of Houston. Watered by the Guadalupe River, the site is crisscrossed with streams, verdant with cypress, oak, pecan and cottonwood. Kerr County has long been a ranching center, and the resort houses often retain the ranch-house look, but with a difference: one Houston millionaire has installed an indoor heated swimming pool in his hilltop home. For dedicated huntsmen who cannot find the time...
There is little sign of discontent with the squalid life. After all, poverty has been the pattern for centuries. Thousands of volunteers turned out patriotically to dig the slit trenches (Hanoi's air-raid shelters) that have been cut through the once verdant parks along the Red River and the capital's two lakes, reminders of Ho Chi Minh's grim determination to pursue his quest for control of all Viet Nam, even if it costs him his economy and the lives of his people...
...Street "The Street that Leads to the Pie Woman's" and Broad Street was known as "Smell Street Lane." Wall Street had its actual wall then (the Dutch had set it up for protection against the Indians), a real canal ran across Canal Street, and a country road called "Verdant Lane" wound about the west end of what is now Times Square. East of Riverside Drive between 125th and 132nd Streets lay "Mother David's Valley...
Perched on a high, verdant ridge at Saint Paul de Vence above Nice, the museum is the elegantly terraced product of José Luis Sert, dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Its ochre fieldstone walls blend into the slope; atop the roof, flying scoops shaped like quarter-cylinders trap the harsh Mediterranean light, diffuse it through milky glass, and bounce it off vaults inside to soften it further. Six galleries are devoted respectively to Bonnard, Giacometti, Kandinsky, Chagall, Braque and Miró; the paintings are from Maeght's collection or gifts from the artists...