Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Raisin in the Sun. Bob Ussery learned to ride back home in Vian, Okla., a little farming town (green beans, cotton, corn) near the Arkansas border. His father was a clerk in the general store, had five children, a pump and an outhouse; his grandfather had a big black mare named Kate. When he was seven and weighed just 55 Ibs., Ussery was clattering across the Oklahoma flatland, perched like a raisin on the bare back of Kate, and celebrating a win over other mounted kids by riding straight into a water hole, Kate...
...time this bill of particulars reached the delegates. Vice President Hromadka had already left on his way home to Prague. Said Dr. John Mackay, ex-president of Princeton Theological Seminary: "Dr. Hromadka does his utmost to adjust himself as much as a Christian can to a political situation. Christians have had to do this ever since the Roman Empire. There is more religious freedom in Communist Czechoslovakia today than in Catholic Spain...
...church, John Strong supports his wife and two children on his $28 weekly factory pay (plus overtime). He usually officiates in his overalls at Communion before scurrying to catch a 6:50 train to work, spends lunchtime visiting the sick or talking to fellow workers, rushes home at 5:30 for parish work and sermon-writing. To the four other worker-priests, such a schedule is too rough; they only help out as assistant vicars when needed...
Tijerina pointed the finger squarely at his own people, who refuse to speak English at home: "When a Latin American boy gets to the third grade, after failing the first and second a couple of times, he finds that he's eleven and the other kids are eight. He rationalizes by saying his skin is darker and that's why he's being failed. He doesn't blame Daddy and Mother. He doesn't ask why they didn't teach him English. He quits school and blames you, because your skin is lighter...
Have Gun, Can Travel. In his inaugural address as president of the American Historical Association, included in An Honest Preface, Webb admits that "I am one of the few persons who did not have to leave home to get a job. I am an example of institutional inbreeding which frightens all universities except the two that practice it most. Harvard and Oxford...