Word: small-town
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...following Ronald Reagan's lead in communicating themes and visions and soaring above the grimy world of facts. Before his New Right admirers, he envisions an America governed by Christian libertarians who would strip the federal government of all responsibilities save national defense and religious guidance. Before poorer, small-town, Old Southerners he extolls a "Walton's mountain vision"-an American based on family virtues, discipline and leadership, the American Dream, and a thinly veiled segregation. Helms admits that he doesn't mind doing what Hunt calls "opening racial wounds," as he doesn't expect any Black votes...
...working vacation at the Jesuit-run University of Scranton, teaching a master class in acting for a hand-picked group of twelve students from throughout the U.S. She has her charges reading from Shakespeare's sonnets and Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, using the accents of small-town America, and says, "That works out fine...
...shortly after Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. became mayor of Minneapolis, he got a call from his father. Hubert Sr. was shocked: his son had been seen dining with bankers. The small-town druggist delivered a warning against the lures of wealth, power and compromise...
...been bitterly unhappy since Julia's remarriage." Waynesboro's genteel bigots are scarcely more compelling. Germans are "hucksters" and the Irish "pa pists." The enduring central themes of Ladies are the passage of years and the sense of moribund small-town life. These the author conveys effectively, if windily, as she regards time as "an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew...
DIED. Meredith Willson, 82, The Music Man's music man, who wrote book, score and lyrics for the durable 1957 Broadway salute to small-town simplicity and sentiment, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1960), also a hit; in Santa Monica, Calif...