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Against this background stands Robert Traill Spence Lowell. Echoes of many of his predecessors and colleagues can be found here and there in his work, although he lacks the resigned elegance and orthodox Christianity of Eliot, the homespun philosophy of Frost, the intellectual subtlety of Stevens, the wit of Auden, the wild...
...present, Millie offers a classic lesson in box-office brilliance. No sex (Julie Andrews changes clothes in a closet while the camera lounges around outside), no philosophy, no violence, only a homespun little message for homespun little girls: follow the dictates of your heart rather than your pocketbook, and your man will turn out to be a millionaire...
HUMS OF THE LOVIN' SPOONFUL (Kama Sutra) includes the latest chart climber, Nashville Cats, which exhibits the Spoonful's sunny, homespun country manner. The group is as versatile and high-spirited as any in folk-rock, and their latest "goodtime music" ranges from the symphonette sounds of Summer in the City, complete with auto horns and a pneumatic drill, to the African-inspired Voodoo in the Basement, played on steel drums and a wastepaper basket. Scarcely hum drums...
Died. Charles Burchfield, 73, homespun, Ohio-born artist, who shunned publicity, never traveled abroad, cared little for critics, convention or popular trends in art, nonetheless won fame and financial success in the 1920s for his watercolors of grey and sordid industrial scenes, after which he changed his style completely, indulged his sense of fantasy by musing about heaven ("Like Corot, I hope there will be painting there") and doing fairy-tale landscapes haunted by macabre creatures; of heart disease; in Gardenville...
...clearly intends to be much more folksy and homespun than its prosperous competitor Newsday, which is based in adjoining Nassau County and serves the entire Island with a thorough blend of both national and local news...