Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Separated. Sue Lyon, 28, Hollywood's passionate nymphet of the 1960s (Lolita, The Night of the Iguana); and Gary ("Cotton") Adamson, 34, convicted murderer whom Lyon met after his arrest and married a year ago in the Colorado state prison. Lyon filed for divorce "because I've been told by people in the movie business . . . that I won't get a job because I'm married to Cotton." But, she added, "I'll always love...
...memories were often harsh. The son of a shiftless, intemperate father, Shaw began tending the hardscrabble Alabama soil almost as soon as he could walk. When he was not plowing or picking cotton, he cut and hauled timber, hacked out railroad crossties, carved ax handles, wove baskets. At 21 he married, left his servitude to his father and entered another. Few economic systems can have been as cruelly deceptive as the one saddled on black Southern sharecroppers. They leased their land from whites, who also paid for the "furnishin' "-feed, fertilizer, tools-they needed to farm. At harvesttime sharecroppers...
Troubles did not end with race. As Shaw notes, "All God's dangers ain't a white man." There was also the unyielding soil and unpredictable weather, the boll weevil, illness and wild fluctuations in the all-important price of cotton. "It's a market price," Shaw explains, "and it's set before you ever try to sell your cotton, and it's set probably before you gin your cotton and before you gather it or grow it or even plant your seed." During Shaw's prime farming years (roughly 1906 to 1932), cotton...
...their entire lives in the time just before they die--Nate Shaw died shortly after Rosengarten finished his tapings--but even given that, Shaw's ability to remember everything that happened to him is extraordinary. He tells, often supplying exact dates, about everything from how many bales of cotton he raised in his first year of tenant farming, to how he felt when his wife died, to the relative merits of the myriad mules he plowed behind...
Like everything else at Harvard, the two cultures of romanticism and realism have roots in the past. The doctrine of the preprofessionals is a recapitulation of the harsh imperatives of the Mather brothers, increase and Cotton, whose fire-and-brimstone Puritanism set a precedent for perseverence along the path of industrious virtue. Henry Adams did not attend law school, but his description of his education here is now heard repeated every day while passing through the streets of Harvard Square: "Harvard College, as far as it educated at all, was a mild and liberal school, which sent young men into...