Word: willow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Noble scholar beneath a willow...
Noble scholar beneath a willow...
...flat near the mouth of a river that is now dry. In those days it must have carried plenty of water during part of the year, for it supported the Chilcas in some style. They lived in conical houses a dozen feet in diameter, made of reeds, straw and willow branches. Many of these houses still exist, covered with sand and preserved by the bone-dry climate. The carbon 14 test proves that at least 50 of them date from 3750 B.C., when the people of Egypt were not much above the same cultural level...
...Barracuda Side. Summer and Smoke put her into something of a mold, and people anxious to keep her there liked to say that she was a splendid weeping willow but not much else. No one said that any more after they saw her in Separate Tables, playing both a repressed spinster and a glamorous high-fashion model. In Sweet Bird of Youth, she was a supremely fading beauty, the sharded Hollywood sexpot with her heart on her thigh. Her manner and expression are so mobile, in fact, that it is possible to see four pictures of her in four different...
...prolific era of tombstone carving lay between 1650 and 1800. With prosperity and education, fashion began to dictate design, and the fine art of the gravestone, with its candid memento mori portraits, its fire-and-brimstone skulls and scythe-bearing skeletons, disappeared. "After' 1820, everything was urns and willow trees." says Ann Parker...