Word: hick
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...culture killer, television. People are wiser (and perhaps sadder too) and won't take bamboozling with the good humor of a more innocent time. Says the Last of the Great Carny Talkers, with monumental sadness: "There just isn't any such thing as a rube or a hick these days...
Tilting with Bobbies. By English standards, Hulme was a hick. He came from a Staffordshire farm family, though his father relished playing the Victorian county squire. Hulme affected to despise the Establishment though he adopted its manner. Once, when a policeman objected to his making water in a Soho Square gutter, Hulme haughtily asked: "Do you know you are addressing a member of the middle classes?" The bobby apologized...
...tribute is echoed in various forms by many long-memoried observers all over Hollywood. Frankie's latest "latest" deserves anyone's admiration: she is a tall, intelligent, guileless South African dancer named Juliet Prowse, who calls Hollywood a "demoralizing hick town" and wears Sinatra like an ankle charm...
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...