Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poor Texas farmer, Mize dropped out of the University of Houston and went to work as a bench hand for an oil-exploration company. He moved up to become a salesman and then climbed through a succession of corporate jobs to become president of Mandrel Industries, an oilfield-equipment manufacturer. Naturally, he bought some stock in Mandrel and, when the company was sold in 1963, he had a bankroll...
...DeCordova's view is new and refreshing. You will look in vain for the Vermont covered bridge, the red barns, weathered clabbard and punctuating steeple, the gulls on the wing and boats at dock (probably Rockport). You will even have to search for the Maine lobsterman, the Vermont farmer and Cape Cod fisherman. There is a larger cross-section of class, creed, and color represented here...
...Farmer Elliott's refusal of the $ 10,000 American Airlines elected to give him, in hopes of receiving 5%-10% of the ransom, puts him in my estimate in the same category as the skyjacker...
...Must we now pay Americans to be honest? The Indiana farmer who found the skyjacking money [July 10] should expect and receive nothing but a polite "Thank you." Is it any wonder that our young people feel the older generation is two-faced...
...ultimate expression of O'Neill's mature dramatic style, A Moon for the Misbegotten has an elegantly simple structure and is laid in an austere setting. Beyond the joking of old farmer Hogan and his daughter Josie, there is very little movement in the play and very little action. Gone is the heavy-handed, generalized dialogue which intrudes upon the earlier action-packed dramas that span years of time. Moon for the Misbegotten is pared down to its essentials--the language is true to each character and the entire play takes place from one afternoon through the following dawn...