Word: hillbillyism
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For those students who spent numerous and enjoyable hours last year listening to Barn Howl and Junkyard Jamboree, WHRB's ban on hillbilly music is indeed unpardonable.
In 1954, a hillbilly named Rhodes became a huge celebrity by hitting some pinch home runs. People hung on this hero's word, to see what secret he had discovered. There was no secret. "When, uh, Leo says 'Go up and hit,' I hit," he mumbled.
As a displaced hillbilly from the mountains of Tennessee I resent your slurring, disgraceful, damnable remark about hillbillies and Governor Faubus.
Set in a hillbilly Peyton Place called Claremore, Certain Women offers armchair Peeping Toms seven separate women to leer at. Vicki is a reformed prostitute, happily married to a filling-station owner named Jeff. Unfortunately, Jeff has to spend every other night at the filling station, so that when one...
By calling out the National Guard against school integration in Little Rock (TIME, Sept. 16), Faubus meant only to further his personal political ambitions. But the slightly sophisticated hillbilly from near Greasy Creek had, in fact, set off a chain reaction that quickly went beyond his control; his manufactured crisis...