Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Presbyterian minister and served for a time as chaplain of a boys' prep school. It may be that this professionalism allows him his easy way with the rigors of belief. Without satire or solemnity, he describes Bebb's religion-a life force as sleazy as its peddler. Bebb is, among other things, a sexual exhibitionist, and there is a memorable scene at the altar of his cinderblock church in which he restores potency to an oil-rich old Indian by raising up his own loins in thanksgiving. Eventually Bebb's more than comely daughter cures Parr...
JAMES ABOUREZK, 39, Democrat, S.D., the son of a Lebanese pack peddler, was born and raised on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation. A Stevenson-Kennedy liberal who became the first Democrat elected from his district in 37 years, he defeated an opponent who advocated "obliterating Hanoi." A foe of the seniority system, he is aiming for the Interior Committee to work on Indian affairs...
Both of them were children of Russian Jewish parents. Lil's father was a successful merchant; he sold and repaired sewing machines. Nat's parents were poor. His father died when he was six, and his mother, who never learned English, had to work as a peddler to survive. She also had to send three of her seven children, including Nat, to an orphan asylum for six years...
...Pushcart Peddler...
Lightning Bug is a modest but totally satisfying novel. Like the little boy Donny, the author spent his childhood summers in the Ozarks, and to him the men of Stay More are still gods. In his private time capsule, the arrival of the mail and the ice peddler or-evil day -the revenuer become the rituals of an obscure epoch. Like the late James Agee, he reveres the most ordinary aspects" of the lives of unexceptional people, and with lyrical comedy and irony, he makes his joy infectious...