Word: homespuns
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...younger days, Bok earned his keep crewing on boats and working in the shipyards, but his voyages now are for recreation only. The long trips he reserves for his imagination. "A song is a vessel you fill with your living," Bok once wrote, a definition full of fancy homespun that suits a man who calls himself "a traditional folk singer," but whose craft and dreams are directed toward something a little grander. Toward being a folk artist. As an anthropologist might...
...Lynds' findings was that Munsonians-and by implication, most Americans-were living in two different centuries, desperately trying to adjust to rapid industrialization, yet holding on fiercely to the homespun values of 19th century rural America. Wrote the Lynds: "A citizen has one foot on the relatively solid ground of established institutional habits, and the other foot fast to an escalator erratically moving in several directions at a bewildering variety of speeds." Now a new team of sociologists headed by Theodore Caplow of the University of Virginia has moved in on Muncie to update the Lynds with a study...
...joint session of Congress. With a proper sense of the dramatic, Begin and Sadat first entered the House of Representatives with Rosalynn Carter. A moment later, when the President marched through the giant mahogany doors, both floor and galleries exploded in shouts, whistles and stamping. Delivering the kind of homespun, occasionally halting speech that often fails to arouse his audiences, Carter was cheered when he hailed the Camp David accord as "a chance for one of the bright moments in history." And he moved many of his listeners when he turned to the two Middle Eastern leaders and said...
...spelling and penmanship. She tries to tailor her entries to the known preferences of the judges. Over the years she has become familiar with their likes and dislikes by reading the winning entries and studying the advice in the contest newsletters. Says she: "Some want cleverness, others want simple, homespun ideas...
...most talented figures in European film making: Cinematographer Nestor Almendros (Claire's Knee) and Composer Ennio Morricone (1900). Their work is stunning; yet there is no mistaking Days of Heaven for anything other than an American movie. Malick's ability to capture the terror in plain, homespun settings recalls the spooky vistas of Painter Edward Hopper. The film's naive narration-recited in deadpan colloquialisms by the teen-age Linda-is right out of Ring Lardner's sardonic stories. In the tradition of these other native ironists, Malick keeps his distance from his material. Though built...