Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...County, N.C., Namon Hamrick barely managed to scratch a living as a farmer. He tried cotton, grains and cattle at various times, but, he says, "I never cleared over $1,000 off of farming in one year in my whole life." Then Hamrick tried an entirely new kind of crop. He has prospered so well with it that farmers all over the nation have telephoned him to ask for advice. Hamrick's new crop is golf...
...many pressing problems threaten the Tunku's ambition. Malaysia's current prosperity is endangered by its dependence on a one-crop economy. Synthetics have already captured half the world's annual 5,000,000-ton rubber market and forced down the price of latex. On top of this, Brunei's oil reserves are fast depleting. To counter the economic threat, Malaya has embarked on an ambitious diversification program, is offering a five-year tax holiday to new industries and pushing a big land-development program for new cash crops...
Among the current crop of young actresses who have served at least a part of their apprenticeship on TV: Zohra Lampert, currently appearing with Anne Bancroft (another TV graduate) in Brecht's Mother Courage; Salome Jens, notable as well for her off-Broadway role in The Balcony and on-Broadway part in A Far Country; Collin Wilcox, who made a mark in TV's The Member of the Wedding, won excellent notices (along with Zohra Lampert) in Broadway's Look: We've Come Through. Of them all, none works more consistently, nor more consistently well, than...
...follies. Now she paints in somber tones the squalid miseries of peace. If there is no simple single reason why a nation had to starve and die. she makes clear that there was more to it than the fact that tubers in a wet climate make for a chancy crop...
...theater of the absurd, but the wobbly tone of her play shows that craft will not close a gap between generations. Lillian Hellman is still an arrested child of the '30s, and of its idée fixe that the reformation of society produces a better crop of humans. When people were poor, society stunted them. When people are better off, society corrupts them. After three decades, she is still bemused by Utopia, bored by Existence, and, in T. S. Eliot's lines, "dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good...