Word: inland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...QUIET ENEMY, by Cecil Dawkins. These seven longish stories about recessive but exotic people of the inland South have the special power, which usually belongs to poetry, of haunting the mind...
Cecil Dawkins, a handsome 36-year-old woman graduate of the University of Alabama, falls within most of these categories. Her special region is the inland South and the primitive or recessive social types of the trans-Appalachian Piedmont. Within her limits, she is very good indeed...
Nineteenth Century Dallas prospered as both a western and a southern city. On the western edge of the cotton-rich East Texas "Black Belt", Dallas became the largest inland cotton market in the world. And while West Texas cattlemen transacted business in the stockyards of Ft. Worth, their wives travelled thirty miles East to the shops and culture of Dallas. By the first decades of the Twentieth Century, Dallas was undisputed mercantile and cultural capital of the Southwest. To Texans it was "where the East begins...
Biotnick and Davis both noted that Harvard's traditional attitude toward student organizations has been indifference. "This election is typical of the Harvard reaction to student polities and student problems," Biotnick said. "This fall we had an open Council meeting, in which any undergraduate could come inland discuse any issued, but only one freshman abowed...
With trailing cables and color cameras, NBC-TV traipsed through the Chicago apartment of Inland Steel Vice President Leigh Block, 58, last summer to film his celebrated art collection, which ranges from ancient Chinese to modern French. It was all for a January program on "The Art of Collecting," but then he discovered that the show would have commercials (Humble Oil) as well as culture. "If I had known in advance that it was going to be sponsored, I would not have permitted them to film," blocked Block. With that, he refused to sign a release unless NBC promised...