Word: haywagon
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Some 200 universities have jumped onto the eat-local haywagon--half of them since 2001, according to the Community Food Security Coalition, an advocacy group based in Venice, Calif. For many of these academic foodies, buying local is only part of an educational mission. Scholars like Oberlin environmental-studies professor David Orr advocate "ecological literacy," tying agriculture to the study of fiction, history, science, economics and politics. In a form of dirty-fingernail "experiential learning," some 45 universities and colleges, from Maine's Bowdoin to Minnesota's St. Olaf, have started campus farms. And courses like Sustainable Food Systems...
...such wistful images as a lingering shot of two boys on their backs in a haywagon, rolling along in tree-dappled sunlight, Director Tourneur evokes a full-blown atmosphere of carefree rural living. Equally expert when the film bursts into melodrama, he uses only two graphic shots to concentrate all the impact of a burning-cross visitation by the Klan. When the parson later heads off a lynching by an appeal to the mob's better instincts, the situation is strictly bogus; yet the scene plays with sure effectiveness...
...haystack theory of social problems, that is, that our culture confronts a fixed quantum of problems which are being slowly carted away by 'progress,' each load reducing the total awaiting removal. Actually, however, the culture appears to be piling up problems faster than the slow horse-and-haywagon process of liberal change through education and reform is able to dispose of them...
After their football team had beaten Phillips Andover for the third successive year, the boys of Phillips Exeter Academy one Saturday night last month trundled out their Chariot of Victory, went prancing and cavorting through the flare-lit streets of Exeter, N. H. Atop the chariot, a haywagon which three years ago replaced a famed old coach, perched the Exeter team. A bonfire blazed on the playing field and the chapel bell tolled madly until after midnight...
...elder daughter's father-in-law, when their machine met a roadside brawl. Two motor cars, going in opposite directions had tried to pass a hay wagon at the same time. Both cars went into a ditch; the drivers jumped clear and fell to words and fisticuffs. The haywagon stopped as did several machines. Their drivers wanted to see the "fun" and crowded onto the roadway already narrowed by the haywagon...
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