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PHOEBE quietly recorded the details of the filming on the log, to be used in the editing later on. She also held her clapboard in front of the camera before each take and announced the scene and the number of the take. Then she sat down again on the sidelines and smoked--or stared at the fire. Sometimes, but not consistently, those not involved with the shooting looked at the actor being filmed...
There was much of Abilene in Eisenhower, and he described it unforgettably one June afternoon in 1952, when he had returned to open his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Standing near the little white clapboard house where he was reared (now open to the public), he spoke of his boyhood and his parents, who were members of the River Brethren, a Mennonite sect: "Their Bibles were a live and lusty influence in their lives. There was nothing sad about their religion." Of his own faith, he once said: "I am the most intensely religious man I know. Nobody goes...
...Episcopal priest in Port Jefferson, N.Y., an old Long Island shipbuilding town on the edge of the Manhattan commuter belt. He lives with his wife Peg, their six children, two cats (named Anthony and Bartholomew) and a nondescript dog in a century-old house adjoining his small white clapboard church. At dinner time, the sweet cooking aromas wafting out of the old rectory hint at the true nature of a man who is no ordinary country vicar...
...dozen or so Boston publishers, Cambridge claims two: the Harvard University Press and Daedalus. The first is a local industry, the other a mere quarterly that operates from the fourth floor of a clapboard house. Daedalus, however, merits more than anonymity. It avoids the pitfalls of most scholarly journals--an overspecialized, unreadable, pointless, breed fit only for the bowels of Widener. Though it is snobbishly intellectual, Daedalus nonetheless challenges intellectuals to apply their respective disciplines to controversies once consided too low for "dignified' scholarship. Such topics include student politics, the American national style, the Negro American, life in the year...
Pollard's plight is common enough from Harlem to Newark. But to find poverty in Greenport, L.I., is something else again. As Poet William Cullen Bryant wrote in the 1870s of the tidy, tree-shaded town with its white clapboard houses: "Nowhere is decay or unwholesome poverty apparent." It is not apparent today, but there all the same are migrant labor camps, like the Cutchogue settlement for potato workers, whose four grey-painted World War I barracks house itinerant teams of Florida, Arkansas, Virginia or New Jersey farm hands. Isaiah, 35, the crew chief, is a diminutive Negro from Florida...