Word: homespuns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tool of the socialist apocalypse, was simply the proliferation of stultifying jobs. Yet the descendants of Morris' socialist working men have now settled for the machine-made blessings of the welfare state, stultifying or not. They would sooner be caught in drag than dancing on the greensward in homespun or chipping gargoyles on a cathedral...
...Homespun Hippie. Actually, Douglas, 46, is a square with sharp edges. By "always keeping in mind the people of Cedar Rapids," he avoids the kind of blatant plugging and inside show-biz patter plaguing the late-night talkathons. As a result, his viewers consider him one of them, a kind of homespun hippie who can parry with Stokely Carmichael or trade one-liners with Jack E. Leonard. Though the caliber of guests only occasionally rises to a Bob Hope, it is also true that Douglas' program has become a profitable showcase for new talent. The producers boast that Comic...
...what if Governor Romney said he was brainwashed [Sept. 15]? The Governor has suffered fierce political attacks merely because his speech is not as fast-talking as F.D.R.'s, as glib as J.F.K.'s, or as homespun and hypnotizing as L.B.J.'s. Romney is a man with integrity and noble convictions. Isn't it time the U.S. had a President who would give us the facts instead of a lot of old-fashioned rhetoric, a President who wouldn't be trying to brainwash the American people...
...Germans had nothing to lose by death; Republican Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey claimed that Morgenthau's plan had given Hitler as much of a boost as "ten fresh German divisions." Roosevelt, who at one point had mused that it might be good to return Germany to the homespun-wool economy of Dutchess County in 1810, backed warily away from both the plan and its author. F.D.R. nonetheless adhered to his policy of "unconditional surrender," which pleased Morgenthau mightily. But the stigma of extremism still surrounded him when Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945 (though on the evening before...
...best poet-critic since T.S. Eliot, as his critical volume, Poetry and the Age, attests. He rejected what Poet Shapiro calls "Eliot's High Church voice" in favor of "plain American, which dogs and cats can read." He demanded plain speech and uttered it. Thus his heroes were homespun Wordsworth, unfashionable Kipling, Thomas Hardy, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost and, of course, the greatest American poet to speak for the common man-Walt Whitman...