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...Coleman's It's Not Where You Start (the last lines: "It's where you finish/ And you've finished on top"). Leonard Bernstein conducted the National Symphony Orchestra in his composition If Ever Man Were Loved by Wife, which he dedicated to Rosalynn. James Dickey recited a new poem, describing Carter as a mythic hero drawing strength from a walk in the Plains countryside on a summer's night. Sample lines: "Lord, let me shake/ With purpose. Wild hope can always spring/ From tended strength. Everything is in that...
Married. James Dickey, 53, poet and novelist (Deliverance) of the South; and Deborah Dodson, 25, his former student; he for the second time, she for the first; in Columbia, S.C. Dickey's first wife died Oct. 29. Of his second, he said: "She restored...
Literature still provides the dominant myth of Dixie. Tennessee Williams' hostile parlors, James Dickey's blood rites. William Faulkner's epic feuds, Margaret Mitchell's antebellum aristocrats, Richard Wright's mangled blacks supply the melodramatic leads. Popular culture contributes the script. Barrelbellied redneck sheriffs and chanting, chain-gang Negroes have been staples of films since...
...close to its mountains and woods, lakes and streams and shores. They cherish its abundant yields and convivially share them. If life in the South seems to move more slowly than it does elsewhere, it may be because Southerners take more time to enjoy it. As Poet-Novelist James Dickey (Deliverance) has written, "The South has a long tradition of slow-moving, of standing and watching, of having the time-of giving ourselves the time-to sit on country porches and courthouse Confederate monuments and on green benches in public parks and tell each other stories, gossip and use words...
...state's scenic river system and turn it into a park. Secretary of the Interior Thomas Kleppe agreed to take the same section into the eight-year-old National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, which also includes streams like Georgia's spectacular Chattooga, the setting for James Dickey's novel Deliverance. North Carolina's Sam Ervin lent the campaign his Old Testament eloquence. "Let us not dam the New River," he said. "I use the word dam in the sense of ruining the New River from now until the last notes of Gabriel's horn...