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...Hair is much more a confronting experience than a performance. Kids dig the whole scene anyway. But the Broadway theatre-goer-whose daughter typically leaves his house in a cute little miniskirt and Villager shirt, only to change outside into dungaree bells and a greasy workshirt so she can make it down in the East Village- chafes in his starched shirt and itching boxer shorts at the prospect of having to talk to the long-haired hippies who circulate throughout the theatre before the show begins, trying to communicate with straight adult society. His wife elbows him gently...
...unbelieving friend of mine, who levels charges of "cultural dualism" at Cambridge folksingers, spreads a story of the night Rush came through the Leverett House dining room (he did not live off-campus) and someone called out, "There goes Tom Rush in his $20 workshirt...
This was the man who stood last week on his ancestral acres in Carroll County. In his sun-faded blue workshirt and khaki trousers, his feet planted firmly in the manure-padded earth of his own barnyard, he looked out across the clover field in which hogs rooted and snuffled, across to the yellow sheen of his ripe wheat, on to the horizon. He saw a farther horizon than Carroll County's-a horizon bounded by war but boundless with the promise of a better world. What he thought about now was not the rain clouds that might hurt...
...understand the tremendous vogue he's having. He doesn't really like or understand working people, to my way of thinking, and he's so very sentimental and pompous; in fact as far as I'm concerned, he's nothing but a stuffed workshirt...
...Baker to see the new home of his friend John Stockwell. Showed special interest in John Stockwell's library. . . . Home for Sunday dinner, the best part of which (for Mr. Baker) was ice cream. . . . Changed to old shirt and work trousers, left off hat, coat and waistcoat, rolled up workshirt sleeves and fell to cutting cornstalks in the garden. Carried the corn stalks in armfuls to his vacant side lot. (The stalks were later to be spread on flower beds for winter coverage). Forked up large clods in the back garden with a spading fork. No blisters resulted, his hands...