Word: hinterlands
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Congratulations to you on the wonderful Cover Girl Gwen Verdon plus the excellent write-up [June 13]. It should please you that you've given every man in the "hinterland" the opportunity to read about and see the genius of this very fine artist...
Touring her realm's hinterland, Greece's vivacious Queen Frederika, in a sporty getup, was in gay spirits at a festival in her honor in an Epirus village, won smiles and applause from the townsfolk as she stepped adroitly through the paces of a folk dance, relaxed folksily afterwards...
...Portable Sickroom. To avoid Hamyopia, Chekhov traveled widely. But the Russian hinterland rarely sent Chekhov into those flights of mystic brotherhood common to 19th century Russian intellectuals. He approached it with a clothespin ever ready to clamp to his nose, as when he described a provincial sausage: "The odor was as if you had entered a stable at the moment the coachman was unwinding his leg puttees; when you started chewing the stuff you experienced a sensation like sinking your teeth into a tar-smeared dog's tail." Yet he spent a heroic overworked year heading off a cholera...
...their prize funnymen, Dave Garroway and Steve Allen, working in the open air, shivered on the TV screens in Florida's "unseasonable weather." Home, after a stopover in Chicago, took Arlene Francis and her pots and pans on to San Francisco. Next in line for trips to the hinterland: some of Weaver's 1½-hour color spectaculars...
...time. For no matter how much she wished to stay at home, "I felt some power that always pushed me. This power, this inspiration, was always there to make me play." She went on tours of Europe, North America and the Latin countries, always making special trips to hinterland communities, places where "people are hungry for music...