Word: milk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond the Fringe is an explosion of literate joy. Its four high-IQ British imps skewer clichés and milk sacred cows for irreverent merriment. The chief scholar-clown, Dr. Jonathan Miller, is a droll, gravity-defying pixy for whom a new vocabulary of humor will have to be invented...
...Milk of the Crop. This pressure created a faculty that traditionally stayed out of trouble, heeding Chancellor John D. Williams' admonition to limit public discourse to "the area of your competence." Such restrictions were accepted because Ole Miss teachers are widely afflicted with what one of them calls the "associate professor syndrome"-they want only an undemanding job in which a man can almost retire. The syndrome attracts men willing to take low pay; salaries at Ole Miss average $6,863 a year, as compared with $7,934 at the not particularly munificent University of Alabama...
...talking to only five. If the rest don't bother me, I don't bother them." More social than academic, Ole Miss is in essence an avenue to status in the state. The students are less the cream of the crop in Mississippi than the milk: good students go elsewhere, scholarly James Meredith being an exception...
Archie not only is about the best passer over to throw a football, he is also an ideal young man. He rises early each morning to deliver papers, chats with students and helps them with homework, modestly removes signs saying "We Love You, Archie," drinks milk, studies hard, is friendly, brave, courteous, helpful, obedient, cheerful, reverent, and lots more...
...busy spring planting time, Frank often rises at 2 a.m. to get a head start in the fields. A hired hand helps out in the spring, and in summer they take on three high school boys part time. A sign of the times: they buy their milk at the store, because, says Mrs. England, Les "hates to milk cows...