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...farm, snaked it out by mules to his own sawmills, then ripped into the job of converting the land into dollars, fast and plentiful. He brought in eight tenant farmers-Joe does nicely with three farm hands-and urged them to plow the steep hillsides year after year, planting corn in any and all directions without regard for erosion. Sam Carver was no throwback; he was, if anything, more progressive than most farmers of his generation. But he one-cropped from the earth its precious skin of humus-filled soil and, when he had finished, left it packed with barren...
...this day and particularly for this food. Go with us through the further part of this night. Amen." The meal is hearty. A typical menu: fried chicken, pole beans with lots of shelled ones mixed among the snaps, whippoorwills (brown peas), okra (fixed in a "made-up" dish with corn-bread crumbs and meats, so as to remove the slickness), corn, sweet potatoes, candied pears, eggbread sticks, biscuits, cake and ice cream. Most of the food is produced on the farm-but the milk comes straight from the Lebanon dairy, a fact that would have shocked the farmers...
Plenty of Scope. What makes Stardust so durable? The lyrics for one thing: they contain just the right proportions of imagination, sentimentality and corn...
...commercial pretense that its outhouse-and-leotards folksiness was the essence of America itself. With its first frames the camera swallows this pretension whole. As the hero (Gordon MacRae) rides into the picture, looking about as indigenous as Gene Autry, and singing in a well-schooled voice about the corn that's as high as an elephant's eye, the camera glides through what is probably the most expensive field of the native grain ever grown...
...Just any average cornfield wouldn't do," a publicity release explains. "To recreate for people the world of their childhood wonders ... the producers got an agricultural expert . . . October-maturing corn had to be raised by July 14 . . . 2,100 stalks. 14 neat rows . . . hand-planted, hand-fed, hand-watered . . . reached the skyscraping height of 16 feet." Not only is this hyperbolic flora somewhat higher than is necessary-the eye of the average elephant is only about eight feet from the ground-but also it is of such rich green pluperfection that it looks like nothing more than a cardboard...