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There are 11,021 citizens in Greene County, Ala., and 78% of them are black. They mainly work the soybean and cotton fields that surround the tiny county seat of Eutaw. 80 miles southwest of Birmingham. Greene County is poor: the median per capita income is $4,019. But its black residents are proud of a civil rights revolution they helped create. Says John Kennard, the county's first black tax assessor: "One of the most cherished things our people have here in the black belt is the right to vote." TIME Atlanta Bureau Chief Joseph N. Boyce visited...
...future, gives one's exertions a tough moral simplicity. The point of work in that case is so obvious that it need not be discussed. But apart from the sheer necessity of sustaining life, is there some inherent worth in work? Carlyle believed that "all work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble." Was he right...
...Alther's young people are woefully and often hilariously unprepared for what life in the '60s and early '70s throws their way. What is more, the tight little community they grew up in is being rattled into unrecognizability. Outside organizers have installed a union at the cotton mill, which has passed from the hands of the Prince family and is now owned by a distant conglomerate. Even stay-at-home Sally and her lug of a husband are ruffled by newfangled ideas. Sally decides that she wants a career...
...untucked shirttails fool you, either. One-hundred-per-cent cotton hanging out the back of a sweater did not get there by accident. Anything synthetic there, however, is bogus...
...more radical solutions. Of Morgana, mistress of mandrake and sulfur, Mirren makes an armored, camp enchantress. Swathed in purple veils and seaweed capes, intoning Merlin's dread spells as if they contained the dirtiest and most sacred words in any world, incarcerating the wizard in a cocoon of cotton candy as she proclaims victory over her mentor, Mirren convinces that she could charm a kingdom-or a film- with her perfidy...