Word: ranched
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...groups, and other new religious patterns, were discussed at an ecumenical conference on the future of U.S. religion held in Chicago last January. The participants examined 27 "trendsetting" religious communities of a wide variety. They included King's Temple in Seattle (an independent middle-class Pentecostal church), Lighthouse Ranch in California (a prospering Jesus movement commune) and Tail of the Tiger in Barnet, Vt. (a Tibetan Buddhist meditation community founded...
...Francisco hangers-on, mindless but elegant Harvardians slumming in Hollywood, and New York publishing pariahs who know all the names of their authors, but none of the thoughts behind them. Most impressive is a long episode focussed on an economic South Texas uncle, who lives on a huge sheep ranch, and does nothing but eat, curse out his Mexican help, and jeep over to his wife on another ranch a few miles away. At least Deck confronts a sentimentalized image of his past in this situation and realizes that the reality behind it is perverse and cruel...
...before settling down after World War II to tend to his share of the family fortunes-and to New York cafe society. When his first marriage to former Showgirl Barbara ("Bobo") Sears went awry in the early '50s, he left New York for the Arkansas hills, built a ranch and gradually became the state's biggest booster and leading Republican organizer. Adopting western boots and a straw hat as his trademark, Rockefeller brushed aside charges that he was a "jet-set cowboy," offered Arkansas voters a mildly conservative platform and in 1966 was elected the state...
...airplane, and then they shooed us away like chickens. I had only $10 in my pocket, so I started out on foot. I walked, I thumbed rides, then I walked some more. None of those rich tourists in their big fast cars would pick me up, just ranch folks in their broken-down trucks or oxcarts...
Floyd's score isn't too individual. The ranch hands' trio breaks up verbal rhythms rather in the manner of The Rake's Progress, and the music also includes several hints of jazz, which generally end up sounding like the dull parts of Porgy and Bess. Most of the score, though, is unabashedly dramatic, or at least would like to be. Lacking Puccini's capacity for soaring anguish, Floyd can't pull his listeners out of themselves by their own heartstrings. Once the poisonous mediocrity of his characters' lives becomes vivid, one begins to long for relief from...