Word: countryman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Readers might think that these were the nostalgic notes of country-born editorialists, trapped in the cities and hankering for the farm. But the country flavor in the Herald, the Times and the Journal was distilled by one authentic New England countryman. Long-faced Haydn S. Pearson, 47, is a hard-working naturalist who covers all outdoors, notebook in hand, as methodically as a police reporter on his beat. His nature editorials have offered vicarious trips to the countryside for city-bound readers of the Washington Star, the Newark News and the Indianapolis Star; 79 papers subscribe to his twice...
...things that hurts nature writing the most is sentimentalization," says Pearson. "I don't like to write a nature piece without some facts." He has gathered enough to fill five books (e.g., Country Flavor, The Countryman's Cookbook), and has two more on the way. Says he: "There is a place for some quiet writing that will still be true after the screaming headlines are dead...
...Savold had popped glass-chinned Bruce Woodcock on his glass chin. Down went Brucie. In the fourth round, Savold popped him again with a low body blow. Woodcock, collapsing like a damp dishrag, lay moaning & groaning on the floor. Some of the sportwriters were reminded of a countryman of his, "Fainting Phil" Scott, who had made an art of collapsing, back in the late...
Athenians were regaling each other with the tale of an encounter between a U.S. Army engineer and a Greek peasant. The engineer was taking a sight through his transit along a rural road when the countryman rode up on a donkey. The Greek watched in mystified silence for some time, and then asked the American what he was up to. "Measuring the shortest distance between this point and that village over there," explained the American. "Well," the peasant muttered half to himself, "that certainly seems a complicated way to do such a simple job." "Is that so?" asked the engineer...
...Dinner. Today, at 65, white-haired, stooped and serene, Jacques Maritain shares with his countryman Etienne Gilson the place of honor among living Roman Catholic philosophers. Since 1945 Maritain has served as France's ambassador to the Vatican, giving no official dinners, roaming through other people's parties lost in thought, and devoting most of his time to Rome's Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. Maritain is largely responsible for the upsurge of interest in the philosophic system of the 13th Century's "Angelic Doctor." Last week Princeton University appointed Maritain professor of philosophy...