Word: rustically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Themes. In the final dervish week it was Humphrey who covered the most territory and made the most political mileage. Traveling in a rented bus, he drove furiously across rolling dairyland and rustic wheat country, punching endlessly at two themes: Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson's hated farm program, and Jack Kennedy's early support of that program. Local lieutenants of Missouri's Stuart Symington-whose strategy calls for staying out of primaries-publicly threw their support to Humphrey. Mildly anti-Catholic ads were distributed to 350 Wisconsin weeklies (planted by the unofficial Square Deal for Humphrey Committee...
...Poacher's Daughter. Being a rustic Irish comedy, the film is a pack of delightful lies: white lies, green lies, slick, sly, funny lies-every one as harmless as the tines of a hayfork. With Julie Harris and the players of the Abbey Theatre...
...medicine cabinet to reacquaint himself. "Miss Betty Hyams, twice a day after meals,'' said the label on one bottle. "I was saved. Betty." The plot, however, is mostly concerned with another girl-healthy enough not to require a medicine cabinet-who comes to share Julian's rustic idyl for a while. When he finds her clasped by a lustful vegetarian, he takes to his bed for several days in disgust, but wakes up to find wild flowers thrusting up through the bleak earth of his gloom; there is money in the mail from an American publisher...
Drumfire. Concentrating on Wisconsin's farmers, Humphrey kept up a steady drumfire aimed at Kennedy's early Senate record of voting against farm supports. "I didn't get this election-day religion," he told a rustic audience at the Dodgeville courthouse. "I've been fighting this farm fight since the first day I went to Congress." There was evidence that the attack was beginning to hurt. "Your...
...Poacher's Daughter. Being a rustic Irish comedy, the film is a pack of delightful lies: white lies, green lies, slick, sly, funny lies-every one as harmless as the tine of a hayfork. With Julie Harris and the players of the Abbey Theater...