Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hell, I'd vote for Lunkhead Lyndon before I'd ballot for Barry...
...Every damned time I turn around," says Panama City, Fla., Scrap Dealer Joe LeSuer, a disillusioned Democrat, "there's some federal man in here telling me what I've got to do. Hell, I spend 60% of my time making out infernal forms that if I don't make out they can arrest me for." To Chicago Industrialist Robert Galvin, chairman of Motorola Inc., it amounts to a resistance to being "averaged down...
Crisis of Identity. In Light in August, Faulkner demonstrated how the preoccupation with race can make it tragically impossible for a man to know who he really is, and dramatized the mindless virulence of white reaction to miscegenation. Joe Christmas, the book's hell-ridden hero, is a remarkably modern figure: in the psychological cant phrase of 1964, he suffers an "identity crisis" because he thinks he is part Negro successfully passing for white. Compounding his agonizing psychological fracture, Joe Christmas takes for his mistress a woman who embodies the Southerner's hated notion of the "outside agitator...
...When they saw what Grimm was doing one of the men gave a choked cry and stumbled back into the wall and began to vomit. Then Grimm too sprang back, flinging behind him the bloody butcher knife. 'Now you'll let white women alone, even in hell,' he said. But the man on the floor had not moved . . . From out the slashed garments about his hips and loins the pent black blood seemed to rush like a released breath . . . upon that black blast the man seemed to rise soaring into their memories forever and ever. They...
...American course. There are stone walls to play over, tiered greens the size of polo fields, and acre upon acre of prickly gorse, heather and sad. Nicknames are enough for the hazard: "The Twin Fangs of the Lady of Fife," "The Valley of Sin," "Hell Bunker." For a topper, there is the weather. The word "links," after all, originated in Scotland. It means "golf course by th sea," and in the case of St. Andrew; that means the North...