Word: cajun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time. But a more obvious parallel to the Regina-Marcus affair would be the relationship Hellman had with her uncle, her first love. When she was fourteen or fifteen he whisked her off impulsively on a fishing trip to the bayou, where he was conducting an affair with a Cajun girl, and when they met again for the first time five years later he tried to convince Hellman to run away with him to South America, which she almost did. In both instances Hellman felt an attraction for a man who could be portrayed as unattractive, even cruel...
...story is set in the bayous near Biloxi, not too far from Still's birthplace in Woodville, Miss. The young Cajun Bazile falls in love with the spectral Aurore, defying the Cajun stricture against consorting with spirits as evil and punishable by death. The amorous Clothilde, jealous of a love she cannot understand, betrays her beloved to the village priest. Bazile is hanged. At the moment of his death, Bazile's spirit is joined with that of Aurore...
...campaigns for retiring Democratic Congressman Patrick Caffery. Politics can be largely personal in southern Louisiana, and on that score Watkins is a formidable opponent. He is a French Catholic whose roots reach back 150 years in his predominantly French Catholic district; his manner, relaxed and amiable, appeals to the Cajun voters. Treen, a solemn and somewhat humorless Methodist, is counting on Nixon's coattails...
Their music is a combination of rock, country, cajun, boogie, swing and western. The songs range from some of the raunchiest truck-driving songs ever written, through Doug Kershaw's "Diggie-Diggie Low" to Carl Perkins's "Boppin' the Blues...
...props are assembled: henchmen, reprisals, shootouts at the warehouse, payoffs and protection rackets. The author even seems to have anticipated the recent caveats of the Italian-American Civil Rights League: the world Mafia is missing. Indeed, when his wife dies, leaving only two daughters, Oliver "adopts" a handsome young Cajun named Robert Caillet, cuts him in on the business, and literally railroads him into marriage with his older daughter Anna...