Word: rusticities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Byers Peak Ranch (altitude: 8,600 ft.), Ike found that some changes had been made since his last visit. Near the rustic cabin where the President had roughed it in previous years, Host Nielsen had built a comfortable new prefabricated rambler with an ultramodern electric kitchen calculated to delight an old K.P. like Ike. St. Louis Creek had been deepened in spots for better fishing, and freshly stocked with trout, and a new, one-acre pond near the house was leaping with 412 hungry rainbow trout which Nielsen had thoughtfully dumped in a week before at a cost...
Everywhere the Russian farmers stopped to talk to children, kiss and play shyly with babies. Eying pretty farm girls, they nudged each other and giggled like schoolboys. They played rustic jokes on newsmen and on each other, passed out hundreds of green-and-gold souvenir medals from the Moscow agricultural fair...
...Mercedes-Benz tremble around 160 kilometers (100 m.p.h.). He flashed by goats, banana plantations, royal palms and startled girls in magenta dresses; he hurried dustily on through villages where school children lined the streets for shrill vivas, through towns that tried to attract official attention to their rustic needs with crude banners impossible to read at high speed. After nine hours he coasted into San Cristobal, 18 miles from the Colombian border and 650 miles from Caracas. "Sports, swimming, high speeds," he mused, "all are fine ways to set aside the cares of office...
Stravinsky: Les Noces (Vienna Chamber Choir, four soloists, four pianos and percussion, conducted by Mario Rossi; Vanguard). The subject is a rustic wedding, and the pagan, mechanistic music (written for the Diaghilev ballet of 1923) is built around folk sources. Memorable qualities: the jabbing momentum in the accompaniment and the jerky rhythms of the chorus, which nevertheless convey the feeling of high good spirits. Fine performance...
When Billy Graham goes home, it is to an eight-room rustic house in Montreat, N.C., where he and his wife Ruth live in unpretentious comfort (Billy tithes his $15,000 a year from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association). The Grahams do their best to keep their four children-Virginia, 9; Anne, 6; Ruth, 3; and William Franklin III, 2-from "hamming it up" for the tourists, who sometimes come in busloads to stare at the house. Virginia is currently trying to learn the Sermon on the Mount by heart, has been promised a bike and $25 if she gets...