Word: antebellum
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...listen. Says Lynn Watkins, director of the Mississippi American Civil Liberties Union: "What ((Fordice)) wishes to see is his view of religious freedom, which invades and tramples the rights of others." Some black leaders are wary that black supporters of the drive for school prayer are being sold antebellum values cloaked as piety...
...Roosevelt's New Deal and Johnson's Great Society are not explicitly permitted anywhere in the Constitution, but the broader goals of "promoting the general welfare" imply their right to exist. Organizations like the National Rifle Association are fighting on the side of a battle that was lost in antebellum America...
...cultural touchstone to be of use to comedians when they need the punch line to a bosom joke. She might do a movie or a guest spot on Leno. But mostly, she's been a stately float in the Icon Parade -- the 50-tooth smile encased in antebellum shady-lady couture and a platinum hayloft of hair. Should we expect more of the only woman to have a theme park (Dollywood) named...
...northern corner of the state, mountainous Fayetteville is as far as it can be from Hope's flat piney woods. There were never many blacks in the clefts and dells where independent farmers tended little plots. This area had little sympathy for the owners of antebellum cotton plantations in the black belt, and many in this Republican stronghold fought for the Union. No wonder the Reconstruction government started the state college in this receptive, if isolated, place...
...frames Gates' on-target attack on the right. The second essay, "The Master's Pieces," opens with a scathing assault on former Secretary of Education William Bennett and cultural critic Allan Bloom '56, chargins that they "symbolize for us the nostalgic return to what I think of as the 'antebellum aesthetic position,' when men were men, and men were white, when scholar-critics were white men, and when women and persons of color were voiceless, faceless servants,...filling brandy snifters in the boardrooms of old boy's clubs...