Word: cotton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Memphis towards Jackson, Miss., I chanced upon a man who gave me about a 20-mile lift. After the first few minutes of our ride, he exploded into an excited monologue. With only a few pauses, it lasted for the whole 20-mile drive down the narrow, two-lane, cotton-haul highway between Olive Branch and Holly Springs, Miss. The man wasn't a stereo-typed redneck at all. Obviously a business man, he wore a conservative suit and was driving a small Rambler. His Southern accent was barely perceptible...
...provide enough storage space for it. The new American maxim, Columbia University's John Kouwenhoven has suggested, should be: "Waste not, have not." This does not signify that waste has become accepted in the U.S.-on the contrary. It is only that its meaning has changed. Neither Cotton Mather nor Malthus nor Marx anticipated a society in which only 15% of the population would produce all the food and goods that the whole nation could reasonably need or, for that matter, a society so productive that it could afford, for the first time in history, to have more people...
...adapt himself to the dominating social order. He simply wants to lead a decent life in an indecent society. " Onstage, that society is represented by a gang of white toughs, in an unnamed U.S. city, who accuse Jones of an undisclosed misdeed, subject him to a "trial" in a cotton warehouse and beat him mercilessly. He seeks help from the Legal Aid Society, friends, a minister, but to no avail. In desperation, he turns and pleads his case to the audience in a moving aria, ending with the anguished cry, "I am your conscience." In the final scene, while...
Wednesday, October 12 BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* A wealthy socialite (Jean Simmons) plays loving patroness to a sculptor (Bradford Dillman) who abandons art for money in "Crazier Than Cotton...
...Dodgers were leading the Pirates by H games, the Giants by 4. But it was still anybody's pennant, and none of the contenders were ready to go fishing quite yet. "This business is just battle, battle, battle," sighed Pittsburgh Manager Harry Walker, "every cotton-pickin...