Word: hillbillyism
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Earl faced heavy opposition-notably from DeLesseps ("Chep") Morrison, reform mayor of New Orleans, and Francis Grevemberg, the racket-busting state police superintendent. But Earl's opponents decided to campaign mostly by TV, and this gave Earl an opening. Although he had suffered a heart attack in 1950, Earl...
The Company Store. Some of the young people memorize age-old, unwritten hymns and sing them of a Sunday in the Baptist Church, but most of them soon turn to "that jump-up" music. "I hear that hillbilly music," grumps one oldtimer, "but it don't do me pretty...
Why is Joe Moore described as a boy who wears clothes rank with sweat and caked with grease from his tractor? He walks with long steps, and his shoes are half eaten off by manure acids. After dinner he stretches out on the parlor floor and remarks in a corny...
No Time for Sergeants (adapted by Ira Levin from the novel by Mac Hyman) offers a really good evening of simple-minded fun. Less a play than an episodic romp, it tells of Will Stockdale, an incorrigibly good-natured young hillbilly who is inducted into the U.S. Air Force. Will...
Through the years on shipboard, Wouk had been pecking away at a novel. Aurora Dawn was written in an 18th century style as quaint as a minuet, but it dealt with a 20th century subject, "the contrast between the rat-race values of the radio-advertising world and the stable...