Word: amish
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...Cook'd, made in minuscule quantities by Dewey Kobayashi on the Hawaiian island of Maui. (Luongo notes that the average American consumes 4 Ibs. of chips a year.) Few connoisseurs of anything are competent to contest his claim that the best shoofly pie is made by Dutch Haven Amish Stuff Inc., in Soudersburg, Pa., or that the best dimensional paper sculptures are fashioned by an insomniac housewife in San Diego, Calif, or that the best herbal medicine man holds forth -between nonherbal snacks on Hostess Twinkies-in Glenwood...
...power. Rather, observes Georgetown University Law Professor Dennis J. Hutchinson, "Burger votes the way he thinks a right-thinking person would vote. He applies middle-class values and his own common sense." The Chiefs opinion in Wisconsin vs. Yoder, which ruled that the state could not force Amish parents to send their children to school, is an example. It had "less to do with the First Amendment freedom of religion than with parental authority over children," says Yale's Robert A. Burt. "Burger makes a point of saying that these are good strict parents who do not take welfare...
...pass that question for the moment and ask what went right. There is a lovely moment when the bearded, black-suited Wilder, who has just been beaten and robbed, sees some Amish farmers, mistakes them for Jews and rushes toward them, rejoicing at the top of his voice in Yiddish. Another piece of superior nuttiness has Wilder trying, and utterly failing, to suppress his gabby, questioning nature at supper among the silent monks of a Trappist monastery...
West of Philadelphia, Chester County is a rural paradise of well-tended farms, fox hunters galloping to hounds, and Amish families traveling by carriage to hamlets dating from colonial times. It is horse country-Thoroughbreds, trotters and steeplechasers-a quiet haven for the landed gentry. But in the back country along the Maryland and Delaware borders, Chester County is also home to a band of outlaws that has preyed for years on affluent neighbors...
Then the adventurer becomes, of all things, a tobacco farmer in Pennsylvania's Amish country. No outsider knows more about the sect than Ogilvy, who scatters insights and anecdotes in his wake. He is a bust at farming, and at 38 he conquers Madison Avenue. His exploits there have been boomed in Ogilvy's bestselling Confessions of an Adman. Here he moves on to publicize his most complex and delightful client-himself...