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They rode together in the Clan...
Hall's remaking of the Klan reached its peak in 1915 when he founded a secret left-terrorist organization called the Clan of Toil, clearly modeled in its air of mystery and vigilante spirit on the Klan but dedicated to "bettering immediately the economic condition of the Southern Worker" and "making USE and OCCUPANCY the only title to land." Hall saw in the ills of the South in 1915--tenant farming, poverty, exploitative land and factory owners--a great many similarities to Reconstruction, when his father's generation had complained of the same things, but Hall blamed them...
...with the disease," recalls Mrs. Rose Marie Silva of Livermore, Calif. "When I saw my brother stagger for the first time, I just knew he had it." For years, family members, some of whom believed erroneously that the problem was congenital syphilis, kept the disease a secret in their clan. Finally, Mrs. Silva broke the silence. After reading about a family afflicted with a similar hereditary illness (TIME, Jan. 25, 1971) and carrying the clippings in her purse for three years, she finally wrote the National Genetics Foundation last February and asked for help. The result of her call...
...final member of the Wingfield clan is the timid, waif-like Laura, whose face is often blank, but whose eyes are as innocent and easily frightened as a deer's. In the first act, Muffie Meyers acts a Laura too withdrawn to be more than pitiful as she caresses her glass animals, but as the play wears on she wins our fuller sympathy...
Humble Detritus. But incident is the least of Author Woiwode's concerns. He subtitles this novel A Family Chronicle, and the description is apt. The book's rhythm is not that of cinema but of still life. Woiwode scatters memorabilia of the Neumiller clan through 44 separate stories, some of which have appeared alone in such dissimilar magazines as The New Yorker and Mademoiselle. Most of the tales are inventories of nostalgia-the humble detritus of people who, in George Eliot's phrase, "lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." With rare patience...