Word: rustication
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...semiautobiographical first novel, The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski told of a six-year-old Eastern European city boy who is set adrift in the countryside during World War II and physically and emotionally brutalized by peasants. The painfully symbolic title refers to one rustic's practice of daubing a captured bird with bright colors, releasing it, and then watching an incensed flock peck it to death...
...beaten, quaintly dilapidated barns that lined rural roads. The pleasure is fast vanishing. From New England to the Midwest, the old barns are being dismantled by barn buyers who covet their richly textured boards and hand-hewn beams, sell them to satisfy America's increasingly nostalgic appetite for rustic building materials. The barn boards are being used in homes mostly as warm wall paneling for family rooms, dens and country kitchens, or for cabinets to contain the latest stereo-tape decks and color TVs, and even for picture frames. But the weathered wood is also finding its way into...
Hills & Valleys. Part of his problem is the rustic image he projects in an age when the U.S. has finally acknowledged its status as a nation of cities. Though Johnson is a man of the 20th century (born in 1908), he nonetheless seems the product of a more distant past. His politics and philosophy were annealed in the inhospitable forges of the Dust Bowl and the Depression. To the generation that spawned underground movies and acid-rock music, he often seems as remote as Betelgeuse. Hippies, college students and Eastern sophisticates are not the only people who look...
...Hope is the Will Rogers of the age, a kind of updated, urbanized farmer's almanac of political and social currents. Rogers was the sly rustic, a humorist with a lariat; Hope is the self-caricaturing sophisticated comic with a paradiddle patter. Rogers was show business, and so is Hope, and they share the same understanding of what is unique in American humor: a healthy irreverence for pomp and position. And they both succeeded by pitching their personalities across the footlights to touch their listeners with something close to folk wisdom. Some of Hope's lines even sound...
...University wanted a commuter campus in the middle of the 200 acre rustic reservation which had been appropriated for the college site, so students and faculty would be isolated during the day from the normal cluster of restaurants, stores, and hang-outs which surround most colleges. The college had to be self contained...