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Plain and Fancy (music & lyrics by Albert Hague and Arnold B. Horwitt; book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman), a folk musical about the Pennsylvania Amish, ought to prove popular. A good part of the time-thanks to Broadway as well as Amish industriousness-it is refreshingly lively; the rest of the time it seems-as the Amish themselves might-refreshingly dull. The whole thing has about it a nice country smell of ripe apples and respectable oddity...
...that evening Anna's father and six other Amish men were outside in a car they had borrowed for the emergency. They talked earnestly with errant Anna on the front porch. "All of a sudden they got around Anna and carried her off," said Emma. "You could see from Anna's face looking back that she was scared to death. But they didn't hurt her. They all went away...
...Amish farm is likely to have a horse-drawn buggy in the yard and no electric lights in the house. The men of the sect (an offshoot of the Mennonites) wear wide-brimmed black hats, plain black suits, and beards; the women, plain bonnets and voluminous clothes. For some 35,000 thrifty, hard-working Amish folk, living mostly in Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania, the Devil is a sleepless foe, whom they dodge by foregoing automobiles, plumbing, cosmetics, store-bought underwear, high-school education and all manner of frivolity. Amish folk seldom break through the black homespun that seems to divide...
...stole out of her parents' house, wearing a sinful pink blouse and a blue skirt. She got a lift into town and eventually found a job as a houseworker. One Sunday afternoon last month, her friend Anna Yoder, 18, turned up at Emma's apartment in an Amish bonnet and with a yen to cut loose, too. "I cut her hair and washed . . . and set it," said Emma. "I put makeup on her and dressed her in my clothes...
...Slang for the Amish, derived from the hooks and eyes they wear on their coats and vests instead of buttons...