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...particulars of a grove (Merriam-Webster: "a small wood without underbrush") are not immediate. How many trees are necessary, and of what kind; how old, how spreading? How must they give shade, and how look in the rain? We have no olive trees in Cambridge, and few citizens regularly in togas; why, then, should the University stand on ceremony as regards an actual tree...
Indeed, it might seem that by now the grove would have become largely symbolic: we are surrounded by as many books and pencils as we are saplings proper. Even indoors we admire smooth surfaces of wood: floors, shelves, bookcases lining our walls. Perhaps we've internalized the notions of academe to such an extent that the grove's use can remain entirely figurative...
Lawrence Lindsey Economic Policy Adviser Gets the wood-paneled office that once housed Bob Rubin, and he'll hope to have as much influence...
...Phyllis and the friends and family in the house jumped. She thought the series of pops was firecrackers. Then she recognized the sound as gunfire and immediately did what Derwin had taught her. She ordered everyone to get down on the floor and crawl away, because the den has wood siding. She figured they would be safer behind brick walls. She also figured it was the house next door that was under attack...
...equally absurd and melodramatic. Sample titles: "My Shameful Past," "My Sister Stole My Man," and "Goodbye, Lover." Although the art rarely veers from a "house style," connoisseurs will recognize names like John Romita, later of "Amazing Spider-Man," longtime Mad magazine contributor Mort Drucker, and, in one case, Wally Wood of "Mad" and "Little Annie Fanny" fame...