Word: hicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Westlake College of Music, he launched his career by working as a studio singer on Canadian and British television. "Musically, I'm the product of a sophisticated background," he once said, "yet my songs are basic and simple. I hope to be known as a cosmopolitan hick...
When Ross is allowed to come on, the reader gets a wifely glimpse of the homely, ungainly and not too articulate Coloradan who proved that an itinerant hick reporter could come to the big city and give the blase natives the last thing one would have expected from him: a successful, sophisticated magazine. It was not, Ross proclaimed, "for the old lady in Dubuque"; it wasn't even for Ross's own mother. Her unreal ized ambition for him was to see something under his byline in the Saturday Evening Post. He was shy, so much so that...
...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...