Word: bellum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout this period he continued his studies of Southern history. His efforts culminated in 1938 with the publication of "Road to Reunion" which received a Pulitzer Prize and an unrestrained lambasting from a College Marxist group., "Road to Reunion" looks benignly on Southern efforts during the post-bellum Reconstruction period, dimly on Northern contributions, and skeptically at the ultimate value of the Civil War. The Marxist group, however, judged him guilty of "maligning the struggle and achievements of the negroes" and went on to find him following "in the footsteps of the traditional approach to the period by asserting...
...ante-bellum Natchez there was a law against selling liquor to Negroes, but in spite of it the slave Steven was always getting drunk. When he drank, he tried to escape. When he was caught, he was flogged. On Aug. 10, 1840, his master's diary shows that he was beaten twice: "After he had been Brot home, [I] Hand Cuffed him and Floged Him. In the first place I Knocked him Down at the Building-he then ran away, but was soon Brought Back again . . . I gave Him Late in the afternoon a tolerable severe whiping." Master William...
...something to worry about. Starting with the promise that a college is as good as its students, those students are worth looking at. Most of us are more sophisticated than our predecessors, ante bellum, less enchanted with the world and with ourselves, with an easy cynicism which passes for understanding. We know a sinecure when we see one, and also a Stopping Stone. And we know that four years of Dartmouth can mean both. We're more interested in Security (nee Getting-Rich) than public service or someone else's minimum subsistence. We've watched the College turn into...
Milland turns up as a vaudeville trick-shot artist in a post-bellum copper-mining town where Villain MacDonald Carey is whipping up anti-Confederate feeling for crass economic reasons. The ex-colonel rallies the underprivileged Southerners, converts Adventuress Lamarr to righteousness and does his bit to bind the nation's wounds by quoting Lincoln on "malice toward none." What is especially depressing about Copper Canyon is not so much its dreary reprise of movies best forgotten as its dreary portent of movies still to come...
...shrewishness anger him into desertion, while she battles with sinters and adverse public opinion. He later returns disguised as a puppeteer to re-enact their marriage and separation with puppets. After the shoemaker is assured of his wife's fidelity, he removes his disguise. The status quo ante bellum is then resumed as the shoemaker's prodigious wife is provoked to throw a fit at the final curtain...