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...humor is low key, his New South approach to voters is cooler than the delivery of the hot stump speechifiers of another era. Carter tells crowds: "When I'm in the White House, you'll have a friend there." In contrast, a prewar Georgia Governor and populist, gallus-snappin' Eugene Talmadge, was wont to tell his crowds: "Come see me at the mansion after I'm elected, and we'll set on the front porch and piss over the rail at them city bastards." Carter quotes Reinhold Niebuhr and Bob Dylan rather than traditional Southern...
...Civilized. Concord's races attract a diverse crowd that includes one-gallus retirees, peroxide mountain mamas and lonely textile workers from the nearby Cannon Mills. A crude spectator pecking order exists among fans. Families that applaud Chevrolets won't socialize with friends of the Dodge boys. Mechanic Howard Sussman buys a $4 ticket just to see the power slides. Says he: "My wife can't understand how I can fix cars all week and then spend the weekend watching them race...
...reactionary when times are good," he explained, "but in a depression, I'm a liberal." Like other Southerners, he remained in the Senate term after term. His biggest battle was an early one. In his first bid for reelection, he had to fight off gallus-snapping Eugene Talmadge, who was an out-and-out racist in comparison with Russell...
...influence of apostate theoreticians secretly working toward a return to the old faith-or rather, to an idealized amalgam of paganism and philosophy that they took for the faith of the ancient world. Julian wanted to be a teacher, and might well have been if his half-brother Gallus (whom Vidal paints as almost a parody of the Roman voluptuary) had not been executed for misgovernment, leaving the Emperor Constantius and Julian as the last male survivors of the imperial line. With Gaul threatened by the Alamanni, Constantius reluctantly bestowed on Julian the title of Caesar and gave him both...
There was a time when it was fairly recherche to show interest in Schutz or Gallus, but that day has past, Sunday evening, a capacity audience lined up an hour in advance for tickets to a performance of liturgical music by Josquin des Prez, Buchner, and other Fifteenth and Sixteenth century composers. And this was no historical experiment, but a mature, indeed exalted, presentation...