Word: rustication
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Inspired by Mark Twain's 1865 tale The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, the old California Mother Lode town of Angels Camp has for the past 43 years sponsored an annual frog-jumping contest. The occasion, reeking of rustic America, always draws entries from across the nation, including those of Governors, Senators, Congressmen and their toadies...
...this applies to Esalen at Big Sur. The scene itself inspires strong emotions: a verdant reach of craggy coastline dropping precipitously into the Pacific. A row of small rustic bungalows that house Big Sur's 60 "seminarians"-its own name for clients-is dominated by the main lodge. Other emotions, some of them hostile to Esalen, have been aroused by the institute's most notorious and overpublicized attraction: its hot sulphur baths, where seminarians of both sexes soak blissfully in the nude during breaks in their sessions...
...Years of Triumph covers the early years of Frost's fame in England and the United States, up to the death of his wife in 1938. It describes without malice or apparent prejudice several incidents which indicate that Frost was not a benign simple rustic writing pure-hearted doggerel, but rather an impatient, frequently lazy, hyperbolic man. The reviewers were furious. Some treated the book as a personal insult. One almost-yellow journal reduced its reaction to a sixteen-point print blare, "A good poet-but a very...
Industry and the habits of urban man dominate the attention of environmentalists, but these familiar targets have rustic, yet serious, competition. The nation's 50 million pigs, 38 million cattle and 350 million chickens threaten other forms of life with vast quantities of bodily wastes. Livestock produce two billion tons of manure in the U.S. each year. In some states the situation has become so alarming that farmers, cattlemen and scientists are frantically searching for a way to clean up the landscape...
...biggest factor is that more parents than ever are letting their children choose their own schools. A traditional boarding school that excludes one sex is rarely the first choice. "The rural, rustic life is not attractive to young people," says David Pynchon, headmaster of Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts. "Today's youth is not accepting the kind of authority that the school represents." Adds Pomfret Headmaster Joseph K. Milnor Jr.: "They opt for Mom, Pop, a girl and television." Indeed, places in city and suburban private day schools are much in demand. The power of sex appeal is perhaps best...