Word: hick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hickest of the Hick. During the day, as Author Charles Angoff makes clear in a book that is really a nonstop conversation piece, Mencken's vice was word-intoxication. Profane, scatological and childishly bigoted, Mencken uttered a good many words that probably belonged in the spit toon, but they lodged vividly in the memory of Russian-born, Harvard-educated Charles Angoff. Critic, Novelist and Edi tor Angoff has a legitimate claim to know Mencken well-from 1925 to 1933 he was Mencken's sole editorial associate on the Mercury. But this will only partly help the reader...
...presidential delegates at stake, the leading contest was for the Senate seat occupied and defended by Republican Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper, 59 ardent supporter of the Benson farm program. Hickenlooper won renomination by a two-to-one margin over Attorney General Dayton Countryman, 38, temperance and high price-support advocate. Hick's November opponent will be R. M. ("Spike"') Evans, 65, landowner, onetime AAA administrator under Henry Wallace and a high price-support man who defeated Jefferson Attorney Lumund Wilcox, 43, for the Democratic nomination. In contrast to the Republican vote (down 22,000 from...
...Senator is a mirror of his respective state. That includes the future Senator from Georgia, Herman Talmadge. Why is it that Georgians prefer that hick wonder of callousness, ignorance and narrow-mindedness to a true American gentleman...
...story by Sallie Bingham about a hick named Ephram is almost equally successful. Although Enharm seems terribly nearsighted, in fact as blind as Silas Marner, Miss Bingham puts his difficulty to some use: as he attains a feeling of freedom and independence, he becomes more and more aware of the things about him. While this illumination-through-blindness technique seems a trifle overdone, the story as a whole is vibrant and entertaining...
That simple question, to which almost any layman would answer yes, gets a fast and furious no from many of today's esthetes. Even to ask it in arty circles is to sound like a hick or a troublemaker. Selden Rodman, who is neither, uses it to kick off one of the most provocative art books in years (The Eye of Man; Devin-Adair; $10). His own answer-affirmative-rattles the lattices of a hundred ivory towers...