Word: rustication
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...this collection of rustic short stories, Liam O'Flaherty finds himself in the uneventful void of an Ireland at peace, with only the piping curlews, the fragrant bogs, the blue hills and the boneheaded peasantry for his inspiration. Typical is his story of The Challenge. A drunken tinker stands in a Connemara market place after a fair, offering to tear the living heart out of any Connemara gouger who will fight him. A few feet away a young Connemara man offers to crucify any tinker living. The two bawl insults at each other till the Civil Guards arrive, then...
Writing in the Italian art review, Commentari, Berenson said that Sani's sculptures were not merely "like" the late Roman ones, they were just as good. In Sani's Rustic Dance, for example, "you get the bosses, the depth of shadow, the highly conventionalized foliage, the architecture, even, of a Third or Fourth Century sarcophagus. Looking attentively, you are amused to discover couples dancing in our own way and in our own clothes . . . One could fill pages pointing out the whirling couples, the musicians, the carousers admirably characterized each with his peculiar way of grasping, of moving...
...station except for a balcony around three sides and a built-in organ. There were large exhibits featuring New England buildings and grounds of different epochs ranged along the walls. An entire grist mill had been imported from somewhere in Connecticut: it had a turning water wheel and a rustic sign which read "Terms Cash." People occasionally, we were told, got the idea it was a wishing well and tossed coins into the water under the wheel. Across from the mill, and separated from it by a piece of tumbling New England hillside, was a blacksmith shop. Once...
Yale gave him confidence and sharpened his wits, but in his basic thinking the shaggy-haired, long-boned rustic was not deeply affected. He had been reading John Locke and Thomas Paine since 13. He had learned a lean, spare style of debate and he had developed an abiding conviction that the source of all power is the people-a notion that he was later to translate into his brilliant argument for states' rights against the growing power of the Federal Government...
Lifted Eyebrow. Not even Godfrey himself can quite explain how he does it. Some students of what the public likes profess to see the answer in the "shine of naturalness" reflected by his use of such words as "doggone," "ain't" and "gotta" -the sort of determinedly rustic phrasing which led Fred Allen to call Godfrey "the man with the barefoot voice." His drawling, "God-gifted" voice has been variously described as "warty," "briery," "wood-raspy," and even "like a shoebox full of bullfrogs...