Word: hillbillyism
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With the coming of summer, the guitar-playing Harvard hillbilly disappears into the foothills west of Worcester and leaves the community to its own musical resources. An unusually active undergraduate dramatic scene also fades, throwing the Summer School into a more professional, although not always accomplished, world of the theatre...
Married. Nightclub Singer-Comedienne Dorothy ("The Park Avenue Hillbilly") Shay (real name: Dorothy Sims), 35; and Richard C. Looman, 38, West Coast P.R. man for Chrysler Corp.; she for the first time, he for the second; in Brentwood, Calif.
The barrel in this case is the U.S. Air Force, and Will Stockdale (Andy Griffith) is a pippin. The hillbilly is so dumb he thinks R.O.T.C. is a disease; but he like to bust, he's that crazy about "thuh Ayuh Fowerce." After his first visit to the mess...
Design for Living. In Knoxville, Tenn., an employment ad in the Journal read: "Young married couple desires young lady to stay in home as companion to wife. Prefer one who sings Hillbilly songs."
Last week, a full quarter-century later, the San Joaquin Valley was thriving, and the Okies were thriving. In Bakersfield, Fresno, Visalia, Modesto, the Okies were Californians, still speaking the accents of the Southwest, still voting Democratic, clapping their hands to the hillbilly music of their favorite TV entertainer ('...