Word: crackerbarrel
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...pages away, historian Adolph Reed, Jr. criticizes the same artists for "spew[ing] garbled compounds of half-truth, distortion, Afrocentric drivel, and crackerbarrel wisdom." Amiri Baraka, in his uneven but driving essay, inveighs against Spike Lee's forthcoming film, calling it part of the "black bourgeoisie's attack on Malcolm X." Marlon Riggs later labels Baraka's approach mere "rhetoric...
...wear Western-cut suits with a scarf around his neck and tool around the countryside on a big Harley-Davidson. A former minister of the United Church of Christ who has studied both at the University of Chicago Divinity School and Princeton Theological Seminary, Wierwille is now a crackerbarrel theological promoter who grandiosely claims to have done the only "pure and correct" interpretation of the Bible since the First Century. He has been working on his theology for about 25 years, ever since he shucked his academic background by burning more than 1,000 religious books "to clean myself...
Frost's distrust of liberalism, which in his poems and letters occasionally made him sound like an outrageous parody of crackerbarrel conservatism, was based on a profound belief in smallness and a conviction that life must be lived on a level deeper than anything within the ken of group action. "Beyond the participation of the politicians and beyond the relief of senates," he wrote eloquently to Untermeyer, "lie our sorrows." But Frost also was aware of how much he had staked on sticking to the caricature personality he had partly invented and partly evolved for himself-the curmudgeonly egocentric...
...shoulder and a new song on his lips. He can be pithy or philosophic, can speak from the heart while poking the funny bone, and speak tenderly of babies and bad women and sad men, and speak up for dreams, and speak out against war, and be often crackerbarrel and occasionally caustic. America has always fancied down-to-earth figures who look up at the stars and whose voices can both ring out and drawl, and in the 82-year-old Sandburg it has a notable specimen...
Astringent and idiosyncratic, The Green Crow brings out the crackerbarrel philosopher strain in O'Casey. But the flashes of lyric power are there still, since fortunately, like the leopard, the proud "paycock" cannot change its spots...