Word: antebellum
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...primary battle in South between Ariz. Sen. John S. McCain and Tex. Gov. George W. Bush has created an interesting side debate about the candidates' relationship to the antebellum South, most visibly seen in the acrimony over the Confederate flag in South Carolina...
...opening scene is an antebellum wedding for the wealthy, giving the film a Gone With The Wind air. Commenting that weddings are just another "peculiar institution," two boys on the verge of manhood, Jake "Dutchie" Roedel (Tobey Maguire) and Jack Bull Chiles (Skeet Ulrich) suddenly decide they must become active participants in the preservation of the Southern way of life. Yet this brief conversation fails to justify the movie's dramatic tension. For Roedel and Chiles, risking life and limb is simply one more game. The charade is pervasive, as Ulrich looks entirely out of place in his Civil...
...along the Delta, the docents at museums and antebellum homes seemed to share the same history book. At Stanton Hall, a graceful, pillared house in Natchez, Miss., our guide held forth enthusiastically on the building's period chandeliers, wallpaper and marble fireplaces. When I asked her how many slaves the Stanton family owned, she replied, "I don't know. About 500, maybe. But they all lived across the river...
...long before our Commencement, as I stood in the Lowell House bell tower and watched tear gas canisters arch above Mt. Auburn Street during the Kent State/Cambodia riots, I could only think of those times as the antebellum Harvard," he wrote...
...long before our Commencement, as I stood in the Lowell House bell tower and watched tear gas canisters arch above Mt. Auburn Street during the Kent State/Cambodia riots, I could only think of those times as the antebellum Harvard," he wrote...