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Walter Matthau, on being 57: "It's too old for a man to be an actor. I'd like to be in an office, picking up the phone, buying and selling bushels of wheat...
...spoke with one middle-class, conservative wheat farmer from Freonia, Tex., who said, "If we plow up our fields I predict within two years we'll be under an entirely different form of government, because we'll run out of food before we get another crop...
When the Texan wheat farmer claims, "If we don't survive you don't survive," he has a point...
When Jimmy Carter visited the Indian village of Daulatpur (pop. 1,907), the hamlet was temporarily renamed Carter-Poori (Carter Place). The President perceived that the villagers, who had doubled their wheat production by introducing irrigation and better seed varieties, were "passionately attached to their rights and liberties." They are also realists. Nobody was vexed that Carter's gift to the village, a View-Master with slides of the presidential family, had wound up in the hands of the state's chief minister rather than those of the village council chief, the sarpanch. Nor did anybody seem very...
Gwendolyn Brooks, Pulitzer prizewinning poet, reflecting on the late Carl Sandburg: "He was a largeness, and easy in his day. He stood large in what turned out to be (after much care) raw wheat, much blown by the wind...