Word: mule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the Viscianesi do not seem to mind, but it bothered the mayor of Visciano to be chief of a community so regarded. He badgered the government in Rome into replacing the mountain mule track with a real road down to Nola and arranged for a rickety bus to make the run once a day. But the people of Visciano thought he was slightly mad to wish them onto such a terrifying machine, and they stuck to their mules...
...ever lost a war, Southerners are more likely than others to take a tragic view of life, and man's depravity is the favorite preoccupation of Southern literature-whether magnolia-scented or corn-likker-tainted. Borden Deal, 33, a Mississippi-born short story writer, belongs to the white-mule team. Readers who can digest a sort of homily-grits style and who have a strong head for Southern discomfort will find that in his first novel the corn has not been squeezed in vain. Walk Through the Valley is a solid book...
...quail daily. For the news photographers Hunter Eisenhower was a somewhat unsatisfactory subject. After an initial protest ("That would be silly") he finally agreed to pose with his shotgun slung over his shoulder, but a photographer's request that he pose sighting his gun near Humphrey's mule-drawn hunting wagon met with scandalized refusal: "What? Right over the mules? Let's not be corny...
...grossly as Senator Eastland in trying to defeat it. It is contributing nothing toward a calm and rational working out of a very difficult situation. The reasonable people of the South are caught between two [dangerous] forces: one of them sitting down in the traces like a balky mule, the other trying to move it by setting firecrackers under its belly...
...bathing (rear view) and growing a beard (front view), the Thomas' have kept pretty well out of camera range. However, the narration by Lowell Thomas Jr. which accompanies the monks and mountains that flash across the screen manages to keep Tibet pretty well out of range. Sample line: "This mule is driven by a chap named Lulu and what a lulu...