Word: yokel
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...Palace, he tells of two young hillbillies from West Virginia who come to bad ends in Chicago, and of their only mourners, a writer improbably named Parkhearst Cratty and a wealthy matron most commonly called "greatwoman." Again the theme is one that could be comic-the adventures of a yokel in a big city. Again, the working out is pure terror, with murder of the body and desolation of the soul at the end. Author Purdy dislikes to be considered morbid and argues that "despair in art shows concern." All his stories are grotesque, but caught in them, like...
Rage is Kazan's undoing. He hacks and hews with such ill-considered fury that the patient soon becomes a mere victim and the satire falls to pieces. The victim (Andy Griffith) is a big-time TV entertainer, a professional yokel. Behind his hawg-trough grin stands a greedy and brutal hog, but the public cannot see the phony character for the microphone manner. "Shucks,'' stutters Lonesome Rhodes, as he strim-strams on his li'l ole git-tar, "Ah'm jes' a country boy." And soon his public stretches...
Married. Dixie Dunbar, 36, onetime Broadway dancing star (Yokel Boy) whose legs have more recently been seen dancing beneath the pack of Old Golds on TV commercials; and Robert M. Herndon, motion-picture executive; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...questions he tossed to himself." Said the Knight papers' Ed Lahey: He was "more like the five-star general advising his staff what was going to happen at 1600 hours, and not so much like the Abilene man who tried painfully hard to be a high-minded yokel for his countrymen." But other papers, like the Los Angeles Times, thought Ike's firmness was just what was needed. Said the Times: At the conference he "invited the inference that policy in this Administration is not evoked by the questions of Washington correspondents." Newshen May Craig of the Portland...
...Beneath them throbs the pulse of a canny politician-an intelligent, infectious man with an appetite for hard work, a knack for profiting by others' mistakes, and ambitions to be elected some day to something bigger than mayor of Toledo. By Washington standards, Di Salle is a local yokel-a man whose political experience had been bounded by Toledo's city limits, and whose hide has not been soaked long enough in the brine of the big time to stand up against the buffets of the big leagues. But brine is brine, in small town or large; Mike...