Word: hillbillyism
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On narrow Saunders Street, in the shoddy suburb called Caraleigh at the southern fringe of Raleigh, N.C., stands the Windmill. Its dragon-green neon arms whirl day and night, its sexy carhops skip out in black slacks to take orders on the big, asphalt parking space, its gigantic jukebox, hitched...
He is the Goldwyn of golf, whose hillbilly homilies are legends. Once Snead sat in the Boston Red Sox dugout during a baseball game and listened solemnly while his good friend Ted Williams held forth on the difficulties of baseball as compared with golf. Baseball, with a round bat and...
It was a sad and sacred moment. The bereaved family and other mourners were gathered one day last week around a gravesite in National Memorial Park cemetery, near Falls Church, Va. across the Potomac from Washington. Suddenly, as the rabbi bowed his head in prayer, a raucous blast of hillbilly...
"Gallows Knoll." When Curtin turned on the music last week, Marlowe acted fast, sued for an injunction. Curtin expressed astonishment. The gibbets, he explained, were just part of the decor: he planned to name his place "Gallows Knoll." And he had meant no offense when he turned on the music...
Football, the creation of a 27-year-old North Carolina singer and former teacher named Andy Griffith, is a straight monologue purporting to be a wandering hillbilly's wide-eyed reactions to his first sight of a crowded college stadium, and is notable chiefly for Griffith's relentless...