Word: rustications
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...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...
...roll call notwithstanding, Scouting today suffers from an ill image. The very name-Boy Scout-is practically a synonym for sissy, goody-goody, square. "Be Prepared" has degenerated to a Tom Lehrer double-entendre; the descendants of Lord Baden-Powell are dimly imagined by contemporary cynics to be a rustic army of bug-eyed idealists. Scripture that commanded pious respect when the Boy Scouts were chartered by Congress 50 years ago now seems laughably quaint. "If you notice a Scout badge on a boy's coat lapel," the Boy Scout Handbook still bugles, "give him the Scout salute...
...Ranch School, Inc., stretches over 12,000 acres of six ranches in southeastern Wyoming's rolling Centennial Valley, 20 miles west of Laramie. Snow-capped mountains fringe the sky to the west. Brown trout leap to the hook in the Little Laramie River, just outside classrooms in a rustic old building on the V-Bar Ranch. The 39 students live in a log bunkhouse that once served as a station on the stagecoach line. Supported by funds from Rancher Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty, the school pays each student $15 a week, charges no tuition or board...
...slithering, ravenous reason for their flight. Milo himself would rather pursue his affair, begun two days before, with the 16-year-old daughter of the python's proprietress, but family fealty prevails over private pleasure. With the town's aging sheriff, he rounds up a dozen rustic volunteers and marches off to the chase. Along the way, he gets disastrously drunk on a double swig of corn liquor, staggers off to get sober, and winds up delightedly in bed with the impotent old sheriff's mildly demented young wife...