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Still Jane's life goes on, apparently as before, such moments of violence surrounded by uneventful years. Accepting her humiliations the old-fashioned way -pretending not to notice them-she takes pride in sanctioned achievements like cotton chopping. She gets religion, and she takes to Huey Long. When Jackie Robinson comes along, she turns into a Dodger fan. In the 1960s Jane's new surrogate son rises up to make an issue of segregated drinking fountains. He too is killed, but this time, almost 100 years after she tried her first step out of slavery, Jane continues that...
Understanding what it meant to be a country was possible only after those rocks called Big Sur were seen by people who should have understood what it meant to have worn cloth woven from Southern cotton. But didn't understand what it meant when they got wet and it all became California...
...cost only 1½? to 2? per lb., rice 7? per lb., and meat from 20? to 40? per lb. Milk is higher, at 10? a quart, and so are eggs, at 30? a dozen. Cereals and cooking oils are rationed, as is China's chief export item, cotton cloth (each person is allowed six yards a year...
...been to regard Othello as a racially conscious black instead of the Elizabethan he always was and always will be. Thus Olivier was the embodiment of a calypso Othello, with a Caribbean accent and swagger. The highly stylized, slightly exotic Othello of Moses Gunn might have been a Cotton Club dandy. In the current revival at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, James Earl Jones makes of Othello a wounded animal, a Jack Johnson in agonized decline...
...interested in your article on the new bags to keep premature babies warm [March 1] as I had a three-pound daughter born at eight months. There were no incubators, so a tiny bag was made for her from absorbent cotton covered with cheesecloth. It had an attached hood, something like a parka, and the bottom was closed. She wasn't bathed for six weeks, but was oiled daily by opening the bag. This was 40 years...