Word: rednecked
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...Displaced Person is a complex and appalling tragedy in which country people who think of themselves as hardy "survivors," destroy their own world rather than absorb a Polish refugee who is himself simply trying to survive. Few writers mix comedy and cruelty more offhandedly or more effectively. Witness a redneck farmhand's wife contemplating the Polish family's broken English: "They can't talk. You reckon they'll know what colors even is?" As her hostile speculations grow deadlier, she recalls a newsreel showing bodies stacked in a concentration camp, then thinks of -"ten billion...
...family still live there. It was an impending visit to her family which had occasioned the awkward discussion. "Could you just cut your hair a little? Most people won't do anything, but... there is a class of people ... 'white trash'..." She couldn't say much; the Southern redneck has been used so many times as a stereotype to describe all Southerners that discussion of the subject has become painful for many, particularly for those who, like my mother, grew up in rural areas and still have family ties there...
...equally tragic is it that Archibald Cox, who in his years as Solicitor General applied his intellectual energies to protect black speakers and demonstrators from the dictatorial powers of redneck sheriffs, should find himself purged by the dictatorship of those who claim association in this University...
...people were on the side of Captain America and his fringed partner Billy, shotgunned off their glittering, raked choppers on a Southern back road. But for every cinemagoer who vicariously rode with Fonda and Hopper in that movie, there were probably ten who went with their redneck killers in the pickup truck. The chorus from press and TV remains pretty well unchanged, resembling the bleat of Orwell's sheep in Animal Farm: "Four wheels good, two wheels bad!" The image of the biker as delinquent will take a long time to eradicate. "You meet the nicest people...
...sellers get a 20% cut of the retail price and, though most of them work only a few days before drifting on, a few have found longer-lasting job satisfaction. Says one 16-year-old salesgirl in Dallas: "Flowers soothe the savage redneck." Adds John Suggs, who oversees the group's Little Rock operation: "This kind of work is fun, and flowers have a spiritual quality. They make people smile...