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...HARD to believe that the South of William Faulkner. Gone With the Wind and the Ku Klux Klan could produce Rita Mac Brown. In her latest novel. Southern Discomfort--which is filled with her signature wit and warmth--Brown follows several of Motgomery. Alabama's more interesting citizens as they wander through a sexual and social labyrinth as only a candid, radical feminist...
...Friedman), a West Pointer, is to meet Captain Richard Davenport (Charles Brown), the black officer assigned by the Army to investigate Waters' murder. Almost inadvertently, he says to Davenport: "Being in charge does not look right on Negroes." Besides, the prime suspects are local stalwarts of the Ku Klux Klan. What Deep South white man would testify before a black? Davenport is a seasoned skirmisher on the color line. He is adamant, but scrupulously fairminded...
Ideologically, we oppose the whole idea of uniformed vigilantes mobilizing wherever they deem their presence is needed. Romantic visions of wild, wild West ranchers hunting down evil bandits should not overshadow other examples in our history of people taking the law into their own hands. The Ku Klux Klan, after all, lynched for the sake of Southern order and womanhood...
...these shores in bondage." Two mornings after last week's installation ceremonies (attended by Haley), someone sheared the six bolts anchoring the plaque and made off with it. Left in its place was a small card with the inscription: "You have just been patronized by the Ku Klux Klan...
Giamatti, who was prevented from delivering his remarks in person when he was hospitalized for removal of a kidney stone, also lamented a rise in "antiSemitic episodes" and the growing visibility of the Ku Klux Klan. The New Right, he said, has "licensed a new meanness of spirit in our land, a resurgent bigotry that manifests itself in racist and discriminatory postures; in threats of political retaliation; in injunctions to censorship; in acts of violence." He added: "What disgusts me so much about the 'morality' seeping out of the ground around our feet is that it would deny...