Word: heartlands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...physical ruin. Crowded into hardwood forests and mangrove swamps that cannot possibly support them, Biafrans are starving to death, by a conservative estimate, at the rate of 1,000 a day. Most of the 4,500,000 refugees from all corners of Nigeria who returned to the Ibo heartland live in makeshift camps, totally dependent on scanty government and missionary rations. The price of staple foods has risen fantastically (cost of a dozen eggs: $4), and salaried work is almost nonexistent. Biafra's chance of survival shrinks with each day; yet its resolution seems unwavering. Ojukwu himself has guessed that...
...Photographer Matthew B. Brady when he took his cumbersome cameras to Virginia in 1861. The film's producer-director is Eugene S. Jones, a veteran television cameraman who fought with the Marines during World War II. He spent 97 days with a company of Marines in the heartland of Viet Nam. In the course of that time, more than half of Mike Company's 135 men were killed or wounded; Jones was wounded twice, and an assistant once...
...things are less than swinging in Gass's grey heartland, the big cities are worse: immobile with rigor mortis, "swollen and poisonous with people." Gass pulls a long face at contemporary literary fashions. "It's not surprising," he writes, "that the novelists of the slums, the cities, and the crowds, should find that sex is but a scratch to ease a tickle, that we're most human when we're sitting on the John, and that the justest image of our life is in full passage through the plumbing...
Hominy Homily. Wallace demonstrated that his appeal does not stop with the blue-collar workers usually linked to his campaign. During his two-day tour of Pennsylvania's industrial heartland, his audience appeared to be largely lower-middle-class suburbanites. Also, a few well-dressed men sporting John Birch Society pins trailed him everywhere. After George finished a hominy-and-homily speech in his best backwoods drawl, one Pennsylvania supporter boomed: "Wallace is a new Messiah...
...kindness. Moreover, he packed a mighty literary ambition. He made it plain that he was out to lasso and pin down the Great American Novel. He wanted to force the whole torrent of the U.S. experience between covers, from mean Brooklyn alleys to the lush farms of the heartland, from city slickers to wary countrymen-and for good measure he meant to throw in mountains, rivers and railroads...