Word: americanas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SLOWLY, the roll call proceeded down through the alphabet. When it came to W, West Virginia, then Wisconsin, spirits in the Rockefeller suite at the Hotel Americana fell as flat as the champagne that had earlier been ordered for a victory celebration. Bitterly disappointed as he was, Nelson Rockefeller seemed almost relieved at the same time. Hugging his wife Happy, he whispered, "Now we can really relax." Stepping out into the hall a few minutes later, he sighed to no one in particular...
...hotel is a repository of Americana. In February 1861, representatives of North and South met there to try to negotiate a peaceful settlement of their differences. Later that year, after a visit to the front in Virginia where she heard Union soldiers singing John Brown's Body, Julia Ward Howe returned to the Willard and wrote out the lines of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. After the Union defeat at the first Bull Run, Willard's put on 30 extra bootblacks to scrape the red Virginia clay from the boots of returning officers. Walt Whitman watched...
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...
Tiny Daniels, Md. (pop. 381), is one of the last examples of that almost vanished bit of Americana, the company town, which once ranged from Western mine and lumber settlements to Southern cotton camps. Somehow, Daniels, nestled in a wooded hollow along a back road eleven miles west of Baltimore, has managed to survive. Its company store, company houses, company-dominated churches and company mill-its raison d'être-all remained intact in the age of the megalopolis...
...Portis has succeeded in creating in Mattie Ross a triumphant character, with true grit and sand, an original piece of Americana-sort of a Portrait of Whistler's Mother as a Young Girl in Indian Territory. And he has most vividly produced a true mock western: one in which blood flows with the same impact as real tomato soup suddenly gushing out of an Andy Warhol...