Word: waterer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Scott Jenkins relates how the lawn concept emerged in the 18th century, when the gardens at Versailles were designed to include a small lawn, called the "tapis vert" and the popularity of Lancelot Brown's landscape stylings in Britain ("a new, elite style characterized by a mixture of meadows, water and trees, with grazing animals and graceful curves") meant that the lawn look ascended to primacy in the status hierarchy of the elite. A boom in the popularity of field-based sports such as tennis, cricket, lawn bowling and croquet abetted this rise. While lawn bowling and croquet proved faddish...
...what are the environmental impacts? How much money is spent on the labor, water, fertilizer, pesticide, grass seed and other materials involved in the annual lawn transformation? Clearly, as attested to by the vigor and duration of the landscape assault, the lawn is high priority, and big bucks are spent...
...want to be the most boring, 1950s conventional, but it would be being with my kids...and with other family in some beautiful place on the water and talking about life and, you know, being together...At the same time, celebrating unconventional and expansive motherhood, all the different ways that people mother and all the different ways that mothering, care-taking, mentoring are really valued in the world...
...Pounds of fertilizer, small mountains of earth, gallons upon gallons of water and absurd quantities of labor are channelled into Yard lawncare throughout the semester. But to what end? Why does Harvard choose to spend unknown sums of money compromising aesthetics and limiting student A-to-B point options? Seemingly, they do so to create a billion-bladed carpet of velvety green stretching from Widener to Memorial Church and away on all sides, realized just in time to be crushed irreparably by the thousands of bodies standing, sitting or milling excitedly about on it during the Class Day ceremonies...
...Scott Jenkins relates how the lawn concept emerged in the 18th century, when the gardens at Versailles were designed to include a small lawn, called the "tapis vert" and the popularity of Lancelot Brown's landscape stylings in Britain ("a new, elite style characterized by a mixture of meadows, water and trees, with grazing animals and graceful curves") meant that the lawn look ascended to primacy in the status hierarchy of the elite. A boom in the popularity of field-based sports such as tennis, cricket, lawn bowling and croquet abetted this rise. While lawn bowling and croquet proved faddish...