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...Bass and DeVries do not sketch the background quite that way. Not that they don't agree; they're just more interested in how the foregoing portrait of Southern politics has shattered since the post-war ascendance of economic development and black equality. Southern politics rested, until the last few years, on a consensus of sorts between upper and lower class whites: most white political leaders did nothing to eradicate the inefficient small holdings of poor white farmers, nor did they try to diminish the privileges of poor whites in general versus blacks. For their part, the mass of Southern...
Most politicians cultivate an appearance of ordinariness in the belief that doing so wins elections. Carter can play that game too, especially when he is at home in Plains, pitching softball, draining ponds and filleting bass. But he is hardly ordinary. He is complex, a sometimes lonely and introspective man who has spent much of his life attempting to balance contending forces: parents who were political opposites, the Old South and the New, the various factions of the Democratic Party...
...country music, love. Honkin' is the word for having a good time. In the olden days the distinctive instrumental sound of honky-tonk was tinny guitar and pianoplunk. Today the new rockabilly is a country-and-western/rhythm-and-blues mix, and its dominant sound is a heavily thudding rock bass...
...whole libretto of $4000. Since he wrote it, his fondness for the piece is forgivable. But his tearjerker about a Southern construction crew does not sing on the page. Bourjaily lovingly describes the eventual performance as a smash success; yet it is impossible to imagine how a "solid, bass boom" of a voice could save the line: "I'll see you in the morning, Buster. Pleasant dreams...
...beginning to realize that Bennington is serious about them as candidates. A month later, the couple is chosen and introduced to the students at commencement as "Gail and Tom." Scene fades as the commencement "speaker," a black jazz musician (obviously either sloshed or stoned) gets up to play a bass solo. Close-up of Gail: a look of amazement. "What have we done?" she asks herself...