Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking as one of the millions of hard-of-hearing folk in this land I wish that in your admirable review of Harriet Martineau's Retrospect of Western Travel (TIME, Nov. 2) the reviewer had played up more dramatically Harriet's really amazing achievement. This was not writing a lively and realistic description of our infant republic, but rather in spite of serious deafness collecting the facts for it. My lifelong interest in Harriet was inspired by her handicap, for I, too, have been seriously deaf all my life...
Andy went off to teach college in Texas, but he soon got homesick for the purple, smoky hills and unlearned mountain folk of Georgia. So back he went, bought himself a small piece of land and began to keep school for his neighbors. His school, first called Rabun Gap, eventually merged with a small Presbyterian school with the Indian name Nacoochee and became the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School. "Dr. Andy" developed it into a hillbilly college even stranger than its name. One part is a junior college for boys & girls, who mix book learning with farm work, which pays most...
...Andy believed that what Georgia's hut-dwelling, soil-scratching, God-fearing mountain folk needed most was someone to teach them how to live and farm better. He bought more land, put up neat, comfortable farmhouses, let each family farm 40 acres with teachers to show them how. In classroom sessions that are more like town meetings than classes, the men talk about soil, animals and crops, the women discuss better housekeeping. Children spend part of their day in school, part learning chores. As payment for instruction, house and land, each family returns part of its produce...
Pundits' Praise. By this time many a pious Hindu, including the two most famed pundits of the time-Gauri and Vaishnavcharan-declared that this walking pantheon was himself an Incarnation of God. Other pious folk thought him a madman. His strange acts while in trance varied from imitating a monkey to feeding Kali's food to a cat. Later he made fun of people who proclaimed his divinity by pointing to his left arm, which he had broken in a trance, and saying, "Have you ever heard of God breaking...
...Sweet Sure-Fire. At the University of California, Assistant Music Professor Frances A. Wright examined 2,000 Latin American folk songs, discovered that every one of them sang of 1) el amor, 2) la luna...