Word: bumpkin
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...Luojin, a Peking writer, was mortified by her second husband Cai Zhongpei. In fact, she was sure she had married a bumpkin. He never seemed to talk about aesthetics and the finer things of life, only stupid topics like the price of yellowfish. He flailed and hooted like a child while watching soccer games, and when she hauled him to the theater for some cultural uplift, he laughed when he should have cried. One day Yu tried to coax him into reading a book. He snapped: "I've been selected a model worker every year without reading books...
...sorriest example is at CBS, which became the Bumpkin Network in the 1960s, then dropped a raft of popular shows in the early 1970s in deference to the urban preferences of advertisers. Of late CBS has been hearkening to the heartland again, with Dallas and Dukes of Hazzard and, next Tuesday, a two-hour Return of the Beverly Hillbillies. The film is, alas, the resurrection but not the life. CBS appears to assume that Hillbillies appealed chiefly to yokels, dullards and children, when in fact it was a secret favorite of some college professors and was indebted to the populist...
...intervene massively to help create 60 million jobs. "Instead, Harry Truman-bless his soul-decided to go with the free economy," says Regan. "Without understanding economics worth a damn he understood what the country needed economically. He and my predecessor here, John Snyder-the country banker and the country bumpkin-knew more about economics than many sophisticates out of my alma mater or anywhere else. Economics is not a science...
...democracy was restored in 1974. Ioannidis spends most of his time alone, reading military history and books about the CIA. Even so, he occasionally gives parties in his cell that are attended by convicted torturers, members of his despised ESA military police, who reside on the third floor. The bumpkin of the bunch, according to Papathanassiou, is former Deputy Premier Stylianos Pattakos, whose meek acceptance of abuse by fellow inmates and blind devotion to " his President" make him the butt of prison-yard jokes. Pattakos even gets pelted with tomatoes and eggs thrown by other prisoners. He takes solace...
...secret to Da lies deeper, however, than his bumpkin mannerisms or even his placid gentility. His ignorance serves as a shield against the violent onslaught of painful knowledge. In Da's world, where rosebush cuttings and fresh peaches take first priority, knowledge can only oppress. By reinforcing the suffering of the lower class, teaching them about a better way of life they can never have, this knowledge ultimately spurs Charlie to leave Ireland for London and middle class success as a writer. But Da remains blissful in his ignorance...