Word: bellum
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...grim, grimy, post-bellum steel town, Birmingham remains a backwoods with industrial chimneys. Its best-known citizen is Public Safety Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor, a rambunctious segregationist. Rather than allow integration, Birmingham has shut down the entire city park system, sacrificed the city's baseball team, the annual Metropolitan Opera visit and Broadway shows-leaving Birmingham citizens with much time on their hands to ponder the price of intransigence...
...Administrative Council of the City University of New York has reversed its October 26 decision prohibiting Communists from speaking at municipal colleges. At face value, the new ruling is hardly a cause for rejoicing. It merely restores the unsatisfactory status quoante bellum...
This sort of supererogatory melodrama reached a peak of turgidity in Warren's worst novel, Band of Angels (Orville Prescott in the New York Times, 1955: "thoughtful reflections upon moral issues and psychological factors"). Amantha, the beautiful ante-bellum heroine, is setting divinity students aquiver at Oberlin College when she hears that her plantation owner father has died. Back in Kentucky, to her horror and the reader's titillation, she learns not only that she is the daughter of a slave woman, but that the plantation and she herself with it are being sold for taxes. Soon Amantha...
...Where the Boys Are, with Brigid Bazlen in The Honeymoon Machine, and in Bob Hope's Bachelor in Paradise, scheduled for release in November. While at Lamar High School in Houston, Paula sold a poem to the Atlantic Monthly, went on to Virginia's Auntie Bellum Randolph-Macon College, became something of a campus rebel ("They cling to a tradition that doesn't exist"), protested against her election to exclusive Pi Phi by announcing: "I don't want any girl to be my sister or mother." Later, at Northwestern's famed acting school, Paula impressed...
...impeccable Charleston gentleman with an ante-bellum mind, Editor Waring fires on Fort Sumter every morning. He applauds Citizens Councils, mourns the fact that "even some Southerners-people who should know better-are saying that integration of the races is inevitable." As for the rest of the world ("the whiter they are the better the country"), his newspaper sees it in black and white. One recent editorial was titled "Who Cares What Asia Thinks?" Another, on South Africa, "that outpost of Western civilization," sympathized with white cops "whose lives were endangered by hordes of savages in modern dress." When Kenya...