Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Time had been right about our wide ranging possibilities, but had not foreseen the fact that we might be paralyzed by them. With the experts of the world waiting expectantly for glorious achievements, how could we possibly disappoint them? And so we struggled forward, constantly shifting our choices, searching in vain for a fate that might be worthy...
Most of the towns are mainstreet hamlets, their once glorious centers gently crumbling away while small industry and chain stores encroach on the fringes. There are the Greek Revival houses, the ubiquitous Baptist and Methodist churches, Confederate statues and, always, in the county seats, the courthouse squares. The residents know everyone and everyone's business. Ultimately there grows a deep sense of belonging, of defining one's life through one's place in the community...
...Faulkner was always predicting, done in the South? Or was it that creation flagged once deprived of one powerful, catalytic genius? Whatever the reason, Southern writing today, at the moment of what may be that region's first national triumph in over 100 years, seems stalled between the glorious past and an uncertain future. The past, in fact, has become a burden to its inheritors. On their triumphant march, the older authors left much of the terrain scorched earth. Writers who now elect to deal in moldering mansions and history-whipped alcoholics risk unfavorable comparisons with Faulkner. Indeed...
Carter got his taste for reading from his mother. He vividly recalls how it was when electricity first came to their home, some 39 years ago. It not only dispelled much drudgery but, as Carter remembers, brought abundant, glorious light by which he and his mother could read anyplace, any time...
...talking about the sloop he is going to buy when he finishes putting his kids through college. To honor death, he wore a black carnation in his buttonhole. He saw suicide as a triumphant adventure, as a poet's most splendid poem, as a giggle, as a glorious stunt and especially as an explosive union with the godhead...