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...first farmer to be in financial difficulty primarily through no fault of your own." Thus wrote Senator James Exon, a Nebraska Democrat, in a letter that was probably intended to needle rather than console. The recipient: John Block, a millionaire hog farmer from Illinois who also happens to be Ronald Reagan's highly respected Secretary of Agriculture...
...fact, it is by no means sure that Block is in any serious economic trouble; Block dismissed all criticism as "political sniping," and the most he will concede is that his finances are "complicated." But, like many another farmer, he borrowed heavily to expand during the years of rural prosperity and is now being pinched by the same combination of high interest rates and falling land values that bedevils much of rural America. In the process, Block is becoming for certain farm-state Democrats a deliciously ironic political symbol of agricultural troubles that persist despite the Administration policies that Block...
Maass says he is confident he can succeed as a scholar-farmer, a modern-day Thomas Jefferson, as it were. And indeed, in Wilson's words, Maass "is never unprepared--if this were baseball, he would be the runner who could never be caught off base...
Truman, the dirt farmer, looked his very best in white tie and tails. He always dressed well: neat and tailored. The famed bow tie was the signal of a sporty mood. His gray hair turned white in the presidency, but it never thinned. His voice was nasal and flat, but he learned to use it to cut fog. Truman's profanity was unimaginative but effective, though never used before women...
Tyrone is a failed actor with a tragedian's soul and a Broadway tinhorn's compulsion for self-abasement in bad booze and worse sex. Josie, the daughter of his Connecticut tenant farmer, has adopted the manner of a slut in order to hide her Madonna's heart. Their tragedy is that their one night of (sexless) love comes too late. From it they achieve not redemption but a brief, bittersweet memory; not" I enough, one suspects, to light their separate darkening paths into the future...