Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...photographs in Light make no statements. They present situations into which the viewer must insert himself. In order for the photographs to succeed, the viewer has to work with them. He must allow himself to move into the world in the photographs, a world where his dream-memories and visions become the realities...
...they do come. Every year, in its own modest way, the trickle of Northerners makes its way down. These Yankees are coming for a special purpose. Instead of looking for the simple amusement they could find in one of the North's Fun Cities, these pioneers are following a dream. They are following one of the two Great Southern Myths that the rest of the nation has concocted for its lower regions, and nearly all of their reaction to the South is determined before they leave, by their choice of which dream to follow...
America is a charitable nation, and in its search to find something nice to say about the South, the North has cooked up the first Southern Myth, the dream of Southern Hospitality. This is a pleasant vision, made of equal parts of mint julep, placid plantations, charming belles, and singing darkies. Revelled in long enough, it can impart a kind of Mark Twain air to any town south of Minneapolis...
...second Myth imparts a little less rosy glow to the South. This is the myth of the Redneck South, the South of Klan rallies, midnight lynchings, and torchlight processions. This dream has George Wallace as its star, not Thomas Jefferson. The supporting cast is made up of illiterate brutes and lumbering semi-humans who blindly destroy any thinking creature...
...game may give Munro the opportunity to see his "dream" line playing together for the first time this year if Vargas can play. Wings Gerry Montero and Captain Scott Robertson flank Gomez, Bogovich, and Vargas...