Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dutch-descended Afrikaner is concerned, he is again in the laager, barricaded against a hostile world. Behind him are 300 years of white baasskap (bossdom) in a land he knows is his. His Dutch Reformed Church preaches apartheid, tells him that black men are fit only to be "hewers of wood and drawers of water," and assures him that God is on his side. He lives in isolation from the rest of the world, which he does not understand and he is sure does not understand...
...also preserves masses of clippings and miscellaneous photographs, which he somehow manages to unearth when they fit an idea. Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog-which depicts the Moorhead, Miss., crossing of the Southern Railway and the old Yazoo City Line, colloquially known as "the Yellow Dog"-was inspired by a line from W. C. Handy's Yellow Dog Blues that Cloar had jotted down on a scrap of paper...
...such lines as "She's so deep in my gut, we breathe together"-and indeed, all the dialogue seems to come floating by in bottles from a flotilla of terrible old movies that have shipped out, sailed over the horizon and vanished. But is such a voyage fit for a Queen...
...particularly well-thought-of Indian religious ascetic, Avatar Meher Baba. American psychedelists had appealed to this guru for spiritual advice even some journeying to India "forever," for "the Truth," as part of a widespread LSD-nick Orientalism. But it was ironic, Cohen writes, that, "encouraged by the apparent fit of the Eastern metaphors (for hallucinogenic mystical experiences), the psychedelic vanguard overlooked the fact that Eastern spiritual leaders had consistently dissuaded their disciples from using drugs for spiritual advancement...
...meanwhile, has reacted stoically to the brouhaha. In his few appearances at public functions with Luci he has displayed studied sang-froid and said exactly what his position called for: virtually nothing. Luci's fiancé, an acquaintance observed, has "a chameleon personality that allows him to fit in anywhere...