Word: willow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dress as animals as they call on the spirits. Their ceremonial masks are the focal point of this show, and their beauty blends both religious utilitarianism and aesthic form. A forehead mask, of a loon, an elegant swoop of painted wood, decorated with seagull feathers, eagle down and willow branches, becomes the frightened figure of a dying animal...
Renovation work has had some minor impact on the Towers. Built with state aid in 1950, the project fronts on Cambridge Street between Windsor and Willow Streets, in the district beyond Inman Square where tree-shaded Cambridge Street gives way to an area of small stores and decaying factories. The project is between one of these factories and rows of peeling two-story frame houses. Most of its 228 apartments are in five three story low-rise buildings grouped in front of the tower...
Built with state aid in 1950, the project fronts on Cambridge Street between Windsor and Willow Streets, on one side bounded by a rambling old factory building, and on the other by rows of peeling two-story frame houses. Most of the Towers' 228 apartments are in five three-story lowrise buildings grouped surrounding the tower...
...scare stories about China that circulated in the '60s, especially during the brief ride of the Red Guards, was that Maoism had flung out the past: 3,000 years of willow-pattern tranquillity overthrown, Confucius and Mencius consigned to the paper shredder, and the arts of the ancestral dynasties-Chou and Han, T'ang and Sung, Ming and Chi'ing-abandoned as relics of decadent feudalism, replaced by the cast-concrete colossus of Mao or the agitprop poster of beaming, eupeptic tractor drivers exceeding their norm in Szechwan province...
Joan and Joe Abbott bought this seven-room house in August 1966, just before Matthew was born. Joe left behind an unfinished project-a willow tree to be planted in the backyard. After he was gone, Joan turned it into a family test of hope. They tried many times to get a willow to take root. The trees kept dying. Finally, two years ago a root took. The omen was, of course, good...