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...tell you're in the South, cruising along 1-95 after Washington, is that everyone you meet-gas station attendants, waitresses--has a Southern accent. At first, particularly in Virginia, the South is very ostentatious about itself, too self-consciously Southern. The roadside restaurants are packaged but named after Aunt Emmy or somebody, and they sell Robert E. Lee postcards in gas stations...
...justification and denies the possibility of the future by killing himself. The other characters in the book--two cousins Frances meets in the course of the novel, her brother Hugh, her father--seek their solutions in forms of solitude, even after the death from starvation of a neglected great-aunt reveals the hazards of such a course...
...seemed perfectly natural for Charles. Nesson '60 to become a lawyer; his mother, father and aunt were lawyers, and, he says now, "coming from a family of lawyers I had decided early that I wanted to become one too. I really couldn't think of anything else I wanted...
...uses his character Spiderman, one of his most popular heroes, as an illustration of his approach. "He's got super powers, and he fights crooks; he's just like anybody else. So we gave him an aunt who's always dying of a heart attack; he has all these personal problems; he's sort of a nebbish...
...Sambo, Aunt Jemima, Amos and Andy--historically, blacks have been conscious of public images of themselves because these images have had a tendency to harden into stereotypes. It's difficult to gauge the importance of an image, because its effects are intangible and hard to measure. But in racial issues, image is as important as reality, because what often underlies people's actions are certain preconceptions that are too ingrained to be recognized. And in recent years black students and administrators have grown concerned about their image here...