Word: yokel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ones that will replace them next season are from the same tube. Situation comedies will reach a bit farther than ever. CBS offers My Favorite Martian, about a marooned Martian who gets into comic scrapes with a newspaperman. Paul Henning, creator of The Beverly Hillbillies, starts a new yokel yarn called Petticoat Junction, about a widow and three calico daughters. Burke's Law (ABC) stars a millionaire police detective who tools around in a Rolls-Royce when off duty and whips up souffle Grand Marnier for snacks. Gene Barry, who plays the flush cop, learned how to shoot when...
...little (5 ft. 5 in.) whippet of a man, with the manners of a Southern aristocrat and the look of a riverboat gambler. He never finished college, hated literary talk ("I'm not a literary man, I'm a retired farmer"), often spoke like a country yokel (spattering his conversation with ain'ts and double negatives), and drank like a desperate man. Above all, he was-like his forefathers before him-a Mississippian...
Until recently, his French fans actually thought he was a transplanted U.S. yokel. Partly through pressagentry, partly through pure myth, he was described in the French press as the 18th offspring of a poor Oklahoma homesteader. As a youth, he had played the guitar, punched cattle, and studied counterpoint by candlelight. And so on to Paris, where, the story had it, he was sending home his hard-earned francs to his schizophrenic mother in the Dust Bowl...
...reflective thinker the inarticulateness of the practical man often makes him seem a strange combination of the wizard and yokel, Brand Blanshard maintained last night at the fifth annual Alfred North Whitehead Lecture...