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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Author Agnes Boulton begins her story in 1917, five years after the end of Long Day's Journey, when O'Neill's first one-acters were making him the symbol and idol of the Provincetown Players. If, after 40 years, Author Boulton's memory is correct and young Eugene Gladstone O'Neill did woo and win her with the lines she attributes to him, it is no wonder that much of the story reads like a parody of Victorian melodrama. O'Neill once explained that he had trained himself as a playwright by reading...
...than the South's own moderates. One of them, South Carolina's James McBride Dabbs, a 62-year-old scholar, essayist and Presbyterian elder, makes a forthright appeal to reason in this first book. Amid echoes of the ominous thunderclap of the Faubus election victory in Arkansas, Author Dabbs speaks in a deceptively small voice, but arraigns himself no less harshly than his neighbors...
Sense of Place. In probing the South's ideals or the lack of them, Author Dabbs finds much to praise and does so with a refreshing absence of Southern rhetoric. He loves the South's piety toward the land ("Foot by foot, we have fought across it"), its sense of the past, its respect for manners, its familistic loyalties. He shares the Southern gentleman's strong sense of place. Through his own plantation windows at Mayesville, S.C., Author Dabbs looks "down the avenue along which I hurried as a boy and down which I have seen...
...Author Dabbs riddles the stock arguments of the segregationists. Is it "instinctive" for whites and Negroes to keep apart? Then why, asks Dabbs, are "Jim Crow" laws necessary at all? Are Negroes sexually laxer than whites? Asks Dabbs: "What classes of Negroes, what classes of whites? . . . There are grounds for believing that the Negroes of the upper middle class are even more middle-class than the whites, more insistent upon American standards." Is the Negro "inferior" by nature? Argues Dabbs: "The present scientific view is that no significant differences have been established . . . The inferior position of the Negro...
...Wall Crumbles. In shoring up segregation, Author Dabbs suggests, the South is committing itself to another lost cause-that "of keeping a changeless social order in a changing world." Even while the South frets, fumes and fights its delaying actions, the wall of segregation is crumbling, Author Dabbs believes, under the assault of four powerful forces: 1) the law, 2) industrialization (the machine "knows nothing about the Negro's place"), 3) the democratic spirit, 4) the Christian tradition...