Word: bellum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whoops-am afraid that TIME'S ever-diminishing pretenses to sophistication took yet another dip by way of its reviewer's baffling determination to employ ante-bellum terminology in his incoherent notation on the movie [Raisin in the Sun]. I don't have any idea what "Mammy" and "blackface" adjectives have to do with reviewing a motion picture, but save your copy; it is believed, in some quarters of the world, that the Herrenvolk may rise again...
...frontier boy in ante-bellum Kansas, Cody seems to have gone to five schools, to none for very long, fell into the company of badmen called the Jay-hawkers, stole horses, developed a taste for "tanglefoot," and woke up with a hangover in the Union Army. Scholar Russell is well dug in behind about 500 footnotes and a bibliography of 259 items, but perhaps the reader should look for the odd bits: the unforgettable character who used his slain enemy's ear as a watch fob; the horse thief who won Bill's admiration by running 18 miles...
...crying jag. The tears are shed for life as a lost cause. Such a melancholy viewpoint seems to come naturally to the Southern school of U.S. writers of which Virginia's William Styron is an unevenly talented member. Characteristically, most Southern writers equate the post-bellum fate of their region with the universal fate of man, and identify decline with tragedy. Amid romanticized passivity, violence erupts in Gothic melodramas of rape, murder and madness. Among the few exceptions: some of William Faulkner's Negroes, who achieve the dignity of stoic endurance. Unfortunately, the passion seems to be draining...