Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your issue was a delight, but in all those pages on the glorious emergence of the South, there was only the briefest nod toward the reason why we're booming down here. If it weren't for air conditioning, the South would be uninhabitable, by modern standards, for six to nine months of the year...
Paul Gray observes that "Southern writing today ... seems stalled between the glorious past and an uncertain future. The past ... has become a burden to its inheritors...
...matter how far the Old South recedes into shadow and dust, the money seekers will always pull back the Faulknerian mansions and moss to show the glorious past. Y'all smell dem magnolias, honey? Edgar H. de Lesseps Arlington...
David Halpern's Hollywood On Trial takes a long, diffuse perspective on the Ten and their times, starting with the thirties and moving in little leaps up to the dissolution of the blacklist in the sixties. The footage of the hearings is glorious because, of course, they were staged by the Committee to look like movies. The best actor of all is a young Ronald Reagan who earnestly looks through his clearframed glasses at the Chairman and summons the words of Jefferson to make his point. ("I guess Jefferson..." a humble pause... "said it best...") Gary Cooper shrugs and grins...
...floor that morning. All the unions had to be there that night--the quotas would be filled, and no excuses. It was drizzling that Thursday early last month, and the "Old Man" wanted the "regulars" out there, rain or shine, hell or high water. This was to be a glorious night for the machine and for Jimmy Carter...