Word: arkansan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William Fulbright is quite likely the world's best-known Arkansan. An international scholarship program bears his name. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he has become a hero to dissenters everywhere who oppose the war in Viet Nam. Twice, he has been a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet last week he was doing his durnedest to come across as "just plain Bill...
TRUE GRIT, by Charles Portis. High camp comes artfully close to original Americana in this yarn of a sassy 14-year-old Arkansan heroine who avenged the murder of her daddy back in the 1870s...
Charles Portis, 34, is an Arkansas newspaperman who has fashioned a pop anti-western in the best tradition of Cat Ballou and the Ballad of Dingus Magee. For openers, his hero is a heroine: Mattie Ross, a sassy, 14-year-old Arkansan whose chief protective girdle is a dry Bible-belt faith, and who is out to avenge the murder of her daddy back in the 1870s...
...respected by most Congressmen, who are impressed by his knowledge of the American welfare system and appreciate his non-bureaucratic understanding of their own problems as legislators. Even Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee-who is about as antisocialist as a Congressman and an Arkansan can get-concedes that Cohen has always been willing "to compromise when compromises have to be made." That is perhaps the highest compliment Mills could pay anyone...
...before a Senate subcommittee on behalf of Green Thumb, a Government project that gives old folks jobs beautifying Arkansas roadsides. As the jug band sawed away, someone passed out Green Thumb hard hats (worn as protection against falling tree branches). One of the hats wound up atop that dour Arkansan John McClellan, 71. Without a change in his grim expression, McClellan stood up and began dancing a jig to the Arkansas Traveler, all the while slapping at the hat to keep it in place. Before long it was too much even for Stoneface. "He's actually smiling," said...