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...state?" Correct answers may win handshakes with Governer Brewer ("he ain't a Wallace, but he's a good man") or small "Wallace in 68" buttons. In gas stations and greasy cafes all over the state, the same ritual goes one. "You from out of state? What y'll doin' round here? How you lahk it here?" The ritual has an important purpose: about half the people who come to Alabama are Southern Hospitality-seekers; the other half are rotten no-good trouble-making kids. Each half will get what it's looking for; the Alabamian is ready to glad...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Southern Schizophrenia: | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

...somewhat like Euripides' The Bacchae," but no one is likely to recognize it. Anyway, thought is the last thought in the mind of Director-Adapter Richard Schechner, who is also editor of the passionately avant-garde Drama Review. His production Dionysus in '69 belongs to the doin generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Dionysus in '69 | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

Maybelline, why can't you be true? Oh, Maybelline, why can't you be true?You done started back doin' the things you used...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Chuck Berry: Old-Time Music Grows Old | 11/14/1967 | See Source »

...nation's slums, Michigan's Governor did his best to erase memories of Viet Nam and his "brainwashed" gaffe. Convoyed by a horde of reporters and photographers, Romney loped through Negro districts in Detroit, Washington, Rochester and New York. "What's all this white trash doin' round here?" asked one Negro woman as she made way for the Romney cavalcade in Washington. Nonetheless, the response in the slums was generally enthusiastic. "I think he's a cool dude," said Rufus ("Catfish") Mayfield, head of PRIDE, a Negro self-help organization in the capital. "I mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: The Non-Candidates | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

...other side just couldn't cope with the Fugs' "Whitmanic orgy yawp." The Fugs contains a number of songs ("Frenzy," "Skin Flowers," "Group Grope," and "Doin' All Right") which are uninhibited, if awkward, paeans to sex love. Sample lyrics...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: The Fugs | 3/25/1967 | See Source »

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