Word: farmers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps it began in his old man's garden. His old man, he later discovered by reading books, had never been a "real" father to him. His old man should never have become a scientist. He should have remained a farmer. He loved to work the soil and watch things grow. Scott himself didn't care much for the soil, not to work in it anyway. He was scientifically inclined. But since his father was a scientist, he couldn't accept this inclination either. He felt science was pushed on him. So he had done nothing except...
...decided to tell you a secret, Nathan," he said. "I'm growing a pumpkin; Perhaps I shall become a farmer. Maybe you can talk with me about my decision. 'I've always had messianic tendencies and, consequently, I need you to reassure me that, by becoming a farmer, I'm not in any way retreating from a beneficial involvement in the destiny of my species. Am I a coward Nathan...
...shown uncut, and moviegoers can confirm all the rumors for themselves. They are true. The chances are, however, that viewers who expect a titillating kind of 1,001 Scandinavian Nights will be disappointed. For all its well-publicized explicitness, Yellow is not much more erotic than the Fannie Farmer cookbook...
...early years in the Ukraine were spent amid both prosperity and a continual fear of pogroms. At 19, he landed at Jaffa in the aliya, or immigrant wave, of 1914, and hiked across the sandhills to a farming village. As the need arose, he became in turn a farmer, soldier, irrigation expert and labor organizer. In the 1930s, he was sent to Germany to help Jews emigrate to Palestine. In the '40s, he was a member of the high command of the Haganah, responsible for buying and manufacturing arms...
Kerr is entertaining, but his casual, anything-for-a-laugh approach can only confuse his less-experienced students. He never uses a measuring cup and knocks Fanny Farmer for her chemistry-class precision. But how are his viewers going to know that a Kerr "short slurp" equals one fluid ounce or that "one glug" means one and a half? Julia Child, appalled by his use of canned asparagus and packaged ham slices, writes his program off as "a desecration of fine cooking." He is producing "a personality show or a ladies' show," she says. "He's a tall...