Word: cotton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMERICANA PASTORAL. The citizens of a deprived South Carolina town find that the savior who will revive their cotton mill is black. The town's rejection of prosperity on these terms, and the explosion that results, might have provided the occasion for a dramatic exploration of attitudes and tensions. But Playwright Yabo Yablonsky's formalistic approach to his story keeps the action in chiaroscuro...
...origins. The Sea of Holes ("Or is it the Holy See?" quips John Lennon) was originally intended to go with the Beatle song, Fixing a Hole, which was later dropped from the sound track. It obviously reflects a conscious or subconscious memory of episodes in the movie 2001. The cotton-tailed, clown-faced Nowhere Man is a satire on intellectuals ("So little time, so much to know...
...LORD, I WISH I WAS A BUZZARD, by Polly Greenberg (Macmillan; $4.50). This matter-of-fact rendering of a day in the cotton fields is somewhat removed from the modern child's experiences. The illustrations in brown and orange by Aliki catch the polka-dot bleakness of the Southern landscape at cotton-picking time...
...never did much concertizing of his own. How could he, when he was 14 at the time of his first lesson? His first lesson as a teacher, that is. When he talks about his childhood in Moscow, he says only that he was the son of an Armenian cotton merchant, a shy boy who wanted to be a concert violinist. But after his teacher sent him a ten-year-old pupil of his own, Galamian discovered that he had an even deeper instinct for teaching. By the time he settled in Paris at the age of 21, his lessons were...
...approval to begin construction. Backers argued that their road would provide vital services for farmers and merchants in lonely West Texas. They argued that the line would show profits in only five years by hauling grain, sugar beets, iron ore, oil, castor beans, peaches, potatoes and cotton to Odessa and Seagraves for transshipment to major markets...