Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble starts with the role of John Proctor, the farmer who embodies Miller's moral viewpoint and becomes the tragic hero of the play. The part is here entrusted to Don Murray, who does make an earnest attempt. He starts off all right; but as soon as the role begins to make heavier demands, his shortcomings are evident. In his second-act colloquy with the Reverend Hale, Proctor has an exceedingly important remark: "Is the accuser always holy now?" Murray hurries over this so that the idea is all but lost...
...legislation in 1948, the U.S. began admitting more than 400,000 "displaced persons." Then came 32,000 refugees from the Hungarian revolt of 1956 and some 650,000 from Fidel Castro's seizure of Cuba in 1959. But only under President John F. Kennedy, great-grandson of an immigrant farmer from Ireland's County Wexford, did overall reform begin. According to the Immigration Act of 1965, which finally took effect...
Anglican churchmen have been special targets for abuse. New York's Reverend Samuel Seabury once tried to argue the case for Loyalism in his Letters of a Westchester Farmer ("If I must be enslaved, let it be by a KING at least, and not by a parcel of upstart, lawless Committeemen. If I must be devoured, let me be devoured by the jaws of a lion, and not gnawed to death by rats and vermine"). Instead of being devoured, he was kidnaped and imprisoned for a month by a marauding band of Connecticut Patriots...
...plan, known as the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, has been worked out largely by John Dickinson, 43, the London-trained lawyer best known for his anti-Town-shend-taxes "Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer." Though an opponent of American independence, the Pennsylvania conservative soon became the dominant influence on the 13-man drafting committee, which included hardly any radicals other than Samuel Adams of Massachusetts. The document therefore reflects the conservatives' basic desire to organize the 13 disparate colonies under a united national government that would assume the authority once held by London...
...conversations with a hearty "What? What?" and the other half with a "Hey? Hey?" Still, George is pleased by every sign of his personal popularity with ordinary Englishmen-at least until the start of the war-and he enjoys the nickname, based on his love of rural outings, "Farmer George...