Word: hollows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Majestically arrayed in an ancient blue suit, frayed white shirt and new brown boots, Floyd Handshoe, 51, la bored at a seignorial pace last week, hoeing rocks into potholes in the road. So did half a dozen other unemployed fathers of Handshoe Hollow who have enrolled in a federal make-work project known in the mountains of eastern Kentucky as the Happy Pappies. As they demonstrated the blessings of the poverty program, other local residents-mostly the pappies' wives and small children-harvested potatoes behind a mule-drawn plow on Will Handshoe's land beside Upper Quicksand Creek...
...people of Handshoe Hollow are in no sense comic-strip characters -though to bemused social workers their ways often seem as anticly unreal as those of Snuffy Smith or Moonbeam McSwine. While they have few worldly goods and little interest in acquiring more, most mountain folk of Southern Appalachia cling stubbornly to an ar cane way of life and the bucolic virtues-hardihood, close-knit family ties, fierce independence of outside authority-that were the models of an earlier America. With federal funds coming in, no one in Handshoe Hollow goes hun gry any more. Nor are the pappies very...
HAYDN: DIVERTIMENTI FOR BARYTON, VIOLA AND CELLO (Nonesuch). Because his patron, Prince Nicolaus Esterhazy, liked to play a hollow-necked, stringed instrument called the baryton, Haydn composed at least 125 divertimenti for it, of which five are exhumed by the Salzburger Baryton Trio. To many ears, the recording will be an eloquent argument for keeping the twangy viol locked in museums...
...does in the course of this minor, deft, deliciously droll and sometimes startlingly profound little novel by P. H. Newby (The Barbary Light, Revolution and Roses), the most ingenious and beguiling Puck to appear on the scene since Henry Green came popping out of the all-too-hollow log of contemporary English literature...
Chomping on a homemade stogie, Stewart tackles the chore with relish. Sometimes he saunters to the little cemetery in the hollow to talk to his late beloved Martha, gone these 16 years. When a young Rebel officer (Doug Mc-Clure) wants to marry his pretty daughter (Rosemary Forsyth), Stewart gives the whippersnapper a little lecture on the secret of handling womenfolk...