Word: hick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commenting on Santa Fe's Opera company, the Met's Rudolf Bing says: "Where is Santa Fe [Oct. 13]?" Suggest this Gotham hick find out. He may want to hire opera talent there some day. For most good things, including baseball, are headed west...
...author of two minor novels. He has been AWOL from his typewriter for seven years, and Choctaw rather than English would appear to be his first language. Sample: "A person could actually kill themselves that way." On an alcoholic whim, Dave returns in 1947 to Parkman. Ill., the hick home town he had deserted 19 years earlier in flight from a paternity charge lodged against him by a hay-prone hoyden. Parkman is Peyton Place transplanted, with more skeletons than it has closets...
...coffee a day: Harl, only three ("or I go through the ceiling"); Tulla, 18 ("I just love it!"). They have 20 kinds, ranging from "Angel's Bosom" (Cuban black coffee with lemon peel) to "Cafe del Diablo" (Java Semarang, blended with mint.) Harl says Boston is "just a hick town when it comes to coffee. None of the restaurant suppliers knew what an espresso machine was." Harl and Tulla also serve pastry, cheese, and sandwiches...
...season's first spectaculars and a barrage of premières fell on TV screens last week like a soggy September drizzle. In Bretaigne Windust's The Lord Don't Play Favorites on NBC's Producers' Showcase, a Kansas hick town was caught in a drought. A bankrupt circus only made matters worse by praying for a dry track on which to run its trick horse. The Lord let it rain and the horse won anyway, but as musical theater the whole carnival romp was a washout. Recording Artist Kay Starr's anvil voice...
...prejudices. His private league of nations included the American "boobeoisie," the "bloody English," the "stinking frogs," the "dirty wops" and the "Irish monkeys." New Hampshire and Vermont were "the varicose veins of New England," and New York was "a sewer, a cesspool, a garbage can . . . the hickest of all hick towns." Of U.S. Presidents, there was "no viler oaf" than Woodrow Wilson. "You know what I think of Hoover. Turn him upside down, and he looks the same." As for the Roosevelts, Teddy "had the manners of a saloon bouncer and the soul of a stuck...