Word: rusticating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fallen Angel. Neither loot nor limelight has ever seduced Scofield. The most introverted of English actors, he avoids public places, parties and the press. Between performances, he commutes by train to his cottage 50 miles into rustic Sussex, lives "a complete family life" with his wife, Actress Joy Parker, their two children, some horses and dogs. "It sounds funny for an actor to say it," he says, "but I haven't any desire for the center of the stage...
...Danbury State Teachers College sophomore. All belonged to the Minutemen, a hyper-patriotic organization whose members covertly train themselves in guerrilla warfare against the day when a Communist coup takes over the U.S. Not content to wait for the revolution, the Sunday warriors aimed last week to destroy three rustic, rundown camps that at one time or another had been used for left-wing or pacifist meetings...
...Washington never slept over." The pun aside, Ward stated a problem that has plagued the President all along, and now threatens to overshadow his truly impressive domestic record. He does slop over. He speaks-or preaches-with the accents of the Depression in an age of prosperity. His rustic reminiscences seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban electorate. At 58, Johnson is roughly midway in age between Bobby Kennedy and old Joe Kennedy, who last week turned 78-yet he somehow seems much closer in outlook to the older...
...subjects as local taxes and the school system) have been consistently cautious. "I haven't figured out yet just who the ungodly are around here," he says. "I have plenty of time in which to become cantankerous." Meanwhile, he fills the paper with his own handsome pictures of rustic Washington County scenes-meadows, old mills, derelict wagons-and reaches back into history to print county records from the 1700s. His column is his special joy, and he manages to make it personal and folksy without being corny...
...entrances and exits needlessly awkward. Domingo Rodriguez' costumes are, some details aside, generally apposite, and Tharon Musser's lighting is somewhat too active. John Duffy's opening A-minor music for brass, cymbals and kettledrums smacks too much of a Near East movie spectacular, but the later rustic music, in the traditional rustic key of F-major, is much better. When a lutenist appears on stage, though, we hear a harp; couldn't it at least be a guitar...