Word: high
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growers constitute a mere one-half of 1% of all farm families, but propping up their prices last year cost taxpayers and consumers $2.6 billion in support payments and artificially high retail prices for the sweetener. The subsidy system has also created an ever growing Government stockpile of sugar, currently 193,000 tons, that now lies rotting in Florida and Texas warehouses...
...tall, high-shouldered and middleaged, and who seems sober, gets up from the typewriter and paces about the room. Time passes again, this time into the end zone. Is the writer faltering? No! He finds the thread, and hurriedly types: "Next morning he finds the strange feet still there. 'How's everything, P.B.?' a dozen people ask him before lunch. To each, Sykes replies, 'Fine.' He telephones a doctor. A receptionist says the next available appointment is three months distant. Sykes says he has an emergency. 'What seems to be the trouble?' asks the woman. Sykes cannot tell...
Strange as it seems, a raw potato has fallen from a window high in a nearby apartment building and has nearly done Baker in. Splendid! A column idea from the gods...
...strums a slightly self-pitying ode to his own death by vegetable. In this column, he imagines an Associated Press report ?POTATO MASHES MAN?and broods about his friends saying "Poor devil, he never knew what hit him." "What did hit him?" "Haven't you heard?" Baker's high-wire act has never been snappier. He finishes typing and thinks about making himself a drink. ? John Skew...
Baker is something less than that, and something more. His column walks the high wire between light humor and substantive comment, a balancing act so punishingly difficult that in the entire country there are not a dozen men and women who can be said to have the hang of the thing. Of these good humor men and women, Baker is consistently the most literate. What impresses Pulitzer judges and other journalists about Baker's high-wire heroics is not simply the talent that they require, though the requirement is very high, but Baker's extraordinary range...