Word: wagoneer
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...onto the wagon...
...some residents the communities seem too homogeneous and confining. A 74-year-old Californian found that life was flavorless at his retirement village; he was just waiting for "the little black wagon." Having begun to paint seascapes and landscapes at 68, he moved near an artists' colony, where he now sells his landscapes and lives happily with a lady friend...
...Arkansas's lonely dissenter, he came home to something of a hero's welcome. Several hundred Arkansans, unwilling to wait for his arrival at Little Rock, rode by wagon and horseback some 45 miles to De Valls Bluff to cheer his return. Later, the bishop received an unexpected dividend from the very declaration he had opposed.* Bismarck's Kulturkampf drove many persecuted German Catholics to the New World. Fitzgerald, a hearty, outgoing man who kept his home open to any traveler, managed to attract some of the refugees. There had been only 1,600 Catholics...
Suburbia has long had a special place in American social mythology. Its chroniclers in fiction are John Cheever and Peter De Vries, its poet laureate Phyllis McGinley. The $50,000 split level is its castle, the barbecue chef its master of the revels, the station wagon its chariot, the 8:03 or the clogged expressway its cup of doom. Few modern Americans feel much nostalgia for the farm or the small town, and most now find the once glittering big cities tarnished with decay. The pull of the suburb has been so strong that suburbanites are becoming the most numerous...
...Circle Game. The film espouses no ideology whatsoever, preferring to concentrate on the boy-meets-girl saga. Director Stuart Hagmann, making his film debut after a few years' training in television, seems to have decided that the dominant image of the film is Indians v. the wagon train, so he and his cinematographer lose not a single opportunity to have the camera track 360° around the principals. He stuffs the film with other round-and-round imagery (a carrousel, the pattern of the protesters on the floor) while the sound track drives the point home with constant repetitions...