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Julie, the daughter of an old rabbit trapper named Rabit Hamil (Harry Brogan), is the youngest and fairest member of a family notorious the length and breadth of the county. "The Hamils," says a neighbor, "have the minds of rabbits, the instincts of rabbits, and the morals of rabbits." Young Luke Carey (Tim Seely) has been seeing Julie without sanction from his family. But she is determined to be his wife. "Sure," says Julie, "I wouldn't break in another greenhorn for a thousand pounds...
...suits. Nor was he born poor: his boyhood in Doland, S.Dak. (pop. 550) was as sunny and secure as any American boy could ask for. With his older brother Ralph and two younger sisters, Hubert grew up in a spacious, white frame house, with an Airedale named Rex, a rabbit hutch in the backyard, a cook in the kitchen, and a green model T Ford in the garage. Mother Christine Sannes Humphrey saw to it that her children attended the Methodist Sunday school and listened to Harry Emerson Fosdick on the radio. Father Hubert Sr. read to the kids each...
...takes refuge in being thought a "kook." She loves to demonstrate eccentricity. One night she was sitting with a group of friends who were kidding her about her carelessness with money. Promptly Annie pulled a $20 bill from her purse and started eating it, nibbling the edges like a rabbit tackling lettuce. "I just love to eat money," said she, savoring the effect. "I must take it up with my analyst some time...
Konrad Adenauer caught his toe in a rabbit hole, banged his knee, limped home to Germany from a vacation in Italy, and appeared before a meeting of the Christian Democrat parliamentary group leaning on a cane. "Gentlemen," said the bunny-bugged Chancellor, "I did not fall on my head. Remember this in case you hear something else...
...avoids the word hole. "I have attempted to make the forms and the spaces [not holes] inseparable, neither being more important than the other," he insists. In many late works he has all but abandoned the hole. But through those first apertures Moore traveled like Alice through her rabbit burrow into a most fertile wonderland of sculptural invention...