Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These days, a tourist might recognize Melvin Laird talking on a bench with Kentucky's former Senator John Sherman Cooper, or former White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman striding briskly between points of ex ile. Here and there, among the office workers brown-bagging lunch on the grass, may be seen other men talking White quietly in House the gates - sunshine because only beyond there the could they be sure they were speaking only to each other. Or so they may think...
Perhaps it has something to do with that old Southern blend of agrarian ide alism and the-18th century romance with the noble savage. Or maybe it is just all that ambling through the tall grass. In any case, Southern writers have had a particular weakness for seeing beauty and naked truth through the eye of the innocent. Robert Early, 34, a North Carolinian and former Benedic tine monk, uses the other senses as well...
Unlike the hero of Truman Capote's The Grass Harp, Egan Fletcher Jr. does not live in a tree house. Home is what passes for a mansion in Kornelius-Above-the-Shoals, the Southern town where his grandfather owns the cotton mill. Egan lives there on the eve of World War II with his mother and sister, a 14-year-old in itchy jodhpurs...
...battle over the literal "inerrancy" of the Bible has been shaping up ever since 1969, when a grass-roots alliance of conservatives succeeded in electing the Rev. Jacob A.O. ("Jack") Preus as president of the denomination. Preus, a former professor of Greek and Latin as well as Scripture, is no simple fundamentalist; like other orthodox Missouri Synod theologians, he believes that some parts of the Bible are poetic or symbolic-such as the Book of Revelation. But he also believes that what the Bible presents as factual is factual, and he holds what could be called a theological domino theory...
Domhoff's 1968 speech calls for the welding of these groups into a new revolutionary party with a grass roots base large enough to win a Presidential election. In an August '72 postscript, he abandons the third-party scheme, and concludes that revolutionaries must run in Democratic Party primaries "on the most radical blueprints that can be developed." And as good Democrats, loyalty to the Party is "essential...