Word: carolina
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Those shopping for a philosophy of life could do no better than to look to the works of Reynolds Price. Since his 1962 debut with A Long and Happy Life, the elegant North Carolina novelist and poet has been examining the eternal puzzle of families as they love and hurt one another, come together and burst apart. The unlucky ones are beset by betrayal and murder and suicide. The lucky ones are brought to the brink of destruction but through grace and common sense find a way to live in the universe and with each other...
...heroine in his 1986 novel Kate Vaiden. This time Price focuses on two young men to tell his hypnotic tale of loss and redemption: Bridge Boatner, a famous painter who looks back at the summer of 1954, when he was a counselor at a camp in North Carolina; and Raphael Noren, a prematurely wise, otherworldly 14-year-old who was a camper there that summer. Price begins with Boatner's reflecting, "I'm as peaceful a man as you're likely to meet in America now, but this is about a death I may have caused. Not slowly over time...
...Mapplethorpe show became notorious last year after a protest from North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms forced Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art to cancel it. Well in advance of its April 7 opening in Cincinnati, Citizens for Community Values, a powerful and well-funded 16,000-member organization, sponsored full-page ads in local papers and a massive letter-writing campaign. "We think the exhibit is irresponsible, and we think ((the arts center)) should be accountable," says Monty Lobb Jr., president of Citizens for Community Values. "The gallery is open to the public; it's on public land and receives...
...lunchtime at Thomasville High School in North Carolina, and most students are thinking about the food piling up on their trays. Not Brian Styers, a 16- year-old honors student. He is thinking about the trays themselves -- and the nondegradable plastic used to make them. Bothered by the fact that school- issued Styrofoam trays, plates and cups were choking the local landfill, Styers and a dozen or so like-minded students began marching through the cafeteria earlier this year carrying reusable dishes brought from home. They were branded "tree huggers" and "crazy," but Styers and his friends persisted. They...
...answer is, first, that South Carolina, unlike Lithuania, was not fully democratic. In 1860, 58% of its population was enslaved, denied, among other human rights, the vote. It was a white minority government, we would say today, that voted for secession...