Word: homespun
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...world loom large. Actress Page, who can make a wallflower look like a man-eating plant, strives to read depth and pathos into a role that cracks under the strain, for Scenarist Tad Mosel's out-of-towners can only be taken lightly. They are stereotypes swathed in homespun, plain folks played for hicks...
...homespun counsel smacks of medicine's horse-and &buggy days, this is only because Brady himself is a product of that departed time. After graduating from the University of Buffalo medical school in 1901, he set up a practice and in 1914 began writing a column for the Elmira N.Y. Star Gazette. So far as Brady knows he was then the only M.D in newspaper practice...
...Business. The celebrants at the 13th annual festival had a lot to whoop about. Country and Western music, known in the trade as C & W, has never been more widely popular. Beginning with World War II, when every barracks and afterdeck resounded with homespun hits like Wabash Cannonball and Great Speckled Bird, C & W has spread with the rural populations to the industrial centers of the North and beyond. Today C&W is a bristling $100 million-a-year industry with a network of more than 2,000 radio stations from Massachusetts to California airing country tunes. Nashville, with...
Another, a suave type, feeling grossly outclassed by Harvard sophistication, adopts an alien mid-western twang and cultivates a homespun humor and the slightly hayseed appearance of an endearing country lad. A third arrives sporting a youthful social idealism. Finding this stance unfashionable, he soon outdoes his classmates in pretending to the cynicism of a world-wise septagenarian. Sometimes one's entire undergraduate career may become an act. "The Snow-Man," of one sort or another, is a traditional Harvard phenomenon The ethos of this complex is ambition; its characteristic emotion is frustration...
...education in the humanities at Brown University, the need for a reasonable international stance in Manchester, New Hampshire, or the contributions of Vermont's Republican Senators to a bi-partisan foreign policy, he seemed to touch on the point of most concern to each group. With his web of homespun philosophy, face-to-face political common sense talk, and emotion-charged pleading, he is the embodiment of the great American ethic of the boy-who-grows-up-to-be-President. By the end of the day in New England, there was little evidence that the region had ever been...