Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vetoed the Democrats' boondoggling 90%-of-parity farm bill while farm-state Republicans shuddered, then won passage of a soil-bank farm bill more to his liking. A belated Administration drive to put through a moderate civil-rights bill died virtually unmourned by either party in the Senate last week. Killed earlier because of its involvement with the civil-rights issue: the school-construction bill, primarily because Manhattan's Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr. had tacked on his highly political desegregation amendment (TIME. July...
Cork Popper. Meet Ella Beecher, 16 years old and unhappy on a western Kansas farm in 1914. Mother is an Old Testament termagant in gingham, a Puritan who never tires of inveighing against sin, fun and sloth, who can drop the appropriate Biblical thunderbolt at the popping of a cork or the inadvertent sign of simple happiness. Daddy, not unnaturally, has taken to popping corks, and brother Joe has married a woman as unlike his mother as the countryside can offer. In rapid succession, the father dies of a stroke after a drinking bout, Joe's lovable wife dies...
...little slice of life has the troubling oppressiveness of a Grant Wood painting. Her portrait has a frame of iron, and within it poor Ella and all the rest do not have a chance because Julia Siebel never meant them to have one. Hatred for the harsh side of farm life is here, and hatred for the narrowness of small-town life, but it comes out as a pathological hatred instead of a meaningful one and Ella Beecher seems not so much tragic as vegetable. The publishers compare this embittered tale with the writing of Willa Cather, whom they should...
...Summer of Happiness is the story of a summer love affair. But unlike most such romances, which are merely animal exercises, this one involves deeper feelings and broader meanings. Goren Stendal, a college student, goes to spend the summer on his uncle's farm among the "simple folk." Here he meets and falls in love with the young Kirsten, not sweeping her off her feet, but on the contrary attracting her most strongly when he displays the least urbanity...
...much to look at: big, ungainly and downright ugly, with his mangy yellow coat and sneak-thief ways. But in Texas of the 1860s, with father away on a cattle drive to Kansas and mother and small brother to look after, Travis figured that any cur around the farm was better than none. Old Yeller had just drifted in from nowhere, helped himself to a nice side of meat and decided that he had found a home. As it turned out, Old Yeller did great things for the isolated little family. He ran down rabbits and treed squirrels...