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...Brer Rabbit in the Collection of Joel Chandler Harris, E.C.L. Adams and William John Faulkner" will be discussed by Northeastern University professor Sterling Stuckey at 7:30 p.m. in the ground floor of 77 Dunster Street...
THEIR LITTLE comic books told the story of the Signifying Monkey, a devilish animal who's always instigating fights. The Signifying Monkey, Brer Rabbit, and Anansi the Spider are part of the same West African folk tradition. All three are small creatures that use their wits to survive and to cause trouble...
Like Miss Brer Foxhole in The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show, they are "a true dead ringer for something like you ain't never seen." And like a lady named Bessie in an earlier, simpler tune, The Band just can't be beat...
...Like Brer Rabbit. He left it hanging in the Hill, though, and somehow a tantalizing rumor spread through the art market that there was something up at Christie's. Soon everyone in the trade was haunting the Hill and sniffing the air, each desperately trying to look at the painting without being caught looking at the painting. Indulging in a price-piquing little auction-house charade, Christie's directors twice escorted London's National Gallery director, Sir Philip Hendy, past the painting, slyly watched his reaction. Said one later: "He just sat tight like Brer Rabbit...
Last week Welch, 66, solemnly advised an audience in Salt Lake City that the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam is nothing less than a diabolic Communist plot-using the old Brer Rabbit reverse psychology-to speed up Government regimentation and to push the country into "socialism and totalitarianism." The policies of the Johnson Administration, he said, are "close to insanity," amount to "sheer insanity," "approach insanity," "border on insanity," and are "nothing less than insanity." They are, in addition, he said, "dangerously insane." Welch titled his speech "A Touch of Sanity...