Word: yokel
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...Fields was less pure than he pretended, he was a better publisher than most. Fields instituted the practice, revolutionary before the international copyright law was signed, of paying royalties to British authors. And the reader is rather fond of him when he retires from the book trade to lecture yokel audiences on "cheerfulness" and his recollections of Whittier. Historian Tryon treats his subject gently in a placid Victorian prose that is almost too well suited to his subject...
...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...