Word: julip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Writing. There is none of the harking back to the rural past--for the South has grown, and the oral tradition has given way to a howling one. It is the sound, not of yarns spinning off into the night air, but of men who have chucked the mint julip at their wives and are skyrocketing down the interstate with the top down, their voices drowned out by the rush of the slipstream. It is the voice of the self-conscious who have adopted customs for no good reasons, in a nation which needs that sort of thing...
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