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...Faithful, said leaving the Club shortly after Mrs. Hick's 10 p.m. concession speech, "The world is rotten; rotten right to the middle of the core. It's really rotten." The last few hears haven't been good ones for the people who supported Louise Day Hicks; first the Establishment got the Commonwealth to overturn the Neighborhood School idea with the racial imbalance law; and last night it spoiled the victory party by getting Kevin White elected Mayor. "The Establishment--you know, the bankers and the reporters," said a lady in a frilly blue party dress, "that's what licked...
They are just about ready. Paul, in blue suede shoes and Wild Bill Hick-ok jacket, stations himself on the left, behind Grace. Jack, platinum blond page boy and rimless sun-glasses, is on the right. "Why aren't you all at the Be-In?" he asks. "We invite all of you there after the show." Finally Marty steps forward and says "We'd like to do a thing for a Sunday afternoon. It's an old Fillmore song...
...capital, he learns that the chiefs pidgin-speaking "bush wife," who had once appeared to Odili as "the acme of sophistication" in a white sun helmet, is now seen as a hopeless hick who can't get the hang of English or even much pidgin and is unable to make the cultural struggle into a girdle. She is about to be supplemented by a "parlor wife." Odili, a man of many resources, wants this luscious literate for himself, despite the "bride price" being negotiated for her back home in the village by his patron, the gallant and ever-jovial...
...Eisenstadt may have been waiting for just such an opportunity to move from his earlier anti-busing position. Since his election as Committee chairman, he has clearly been disassociating himself from Mrs. Hick's views. He has led an anti-Hicks majority of the School Committee in many crucial votes, including approval of a Federally-financed project to bus 200 Roxbury students to several suburban schools this fall...
Ever since Will Rogers first ambled onstage with his lariat, comedians have played the hick-in-the-big-city for big laughs and good money. From Herb Shriner to George Gobel to Andy Griffith, dozens have twirled the same line - and still left enough rope for their lineal descendant, Dick Cavett. In a Greenwich Village nightclub last week, Cavett, 29, recited the doleful tale of his country boyhood in Nebraska. The story, as he tells it, is comical enough, and perhaps just true enough to serve as his public autobiography...