Word: homespuns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tough," says Secretary McNamara. "Orville is a man," says Bobby Kennedy. "He's a bulldog," says a member of Congress. Says Freeman himself: "I admire two-fisted people. Pussyfooting around doesn't appeal to me." Though he is a city boy, Freeman sometimes seems a bit homespun by New Frontier standards. His speech is sprinkled with harmless little bromides such as "You can't get halfway up a hill-you got to go all the way." His favorite movie fare is gunsmoky westerns...
...forlorn as an orphaned child. His battered barns brood about better days; a darkened window can show the same pain as the eyes of one of Wyeth's Negroes. The world that Wyeth paints is old, weary, sad and scarred. It is not nostalgia for a simpler, more homespun America that he evokes, but an enormous sense of melancholy for all mankind...
Wyoming's conservative Democratic Governor Jack Robert Gage, 63, is a gnarled, homespun sort who has prospered by doing what most politicians don't. In 1959, as secretary of state, he asked the Wyoming legislature to cut his department's budget; it did, but even so, Gage did not spend all the money. Succeeding to the governorship last year to fill out an unexpired term, Gage confounded Wyoming boosters who were fond of claiming dramatic population growth for the state. Said he: "This is just not true, since among the continental states we happen to rank next...
...whose legislation he had somehow to pass-Franklin Roosevelt, or the present White House staff. But his genius, a novel sort of gift, lay in absorbing unfamiliar legislation and presenting it to the House as something not radical, but necessary, not dangerous, but sound, not suspiciously complex, but homespun and simple as himself...
Forsaking wrestling, homespun comedy, and a war movie on other channels, perhaps as many as 1,000,000 New Yorkers-an impressive 8.1 Nielsen rating-turned one evening last week to a political telecast that combined all three. After ten days of negotiations between staffs, Democratic Incumbent Robert F. Wagner and Republican Challenger Louis J. Lefkowitz met dais to dais in their campaign for mayor of New York...