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Violence colors the surface of Southern writing, but its core is a sense of violation. In Southern historical memory, the great act of violation was. of course, the Civil War and its aftermath. Put as baldly and inartistically as Margaret Mitchell put it, the lament of the South in Gone With the Wind was: a rape-of a people as well as a person-is a rape. Among greatly talented Southern writers, the theme of violation is indirectly stated but pervades the whole texture of life...
...WORLD: a weekly tabloid newsmagazine that will begin publishing Sept. 7. Bank rolled by Willard W. Garvey, a Kansas builder, and edited by former Newsweek Associate Editor and Author (Lament for a Genereation) Ralph de Toledano. World's, will probably be as conservative as De Toledano...
...single records. Songstress Margret (she has dropped her last name professionally) is that rarity in the record field: a girl singer who can really make a pop song pop. In a pulsating, slightly nasalized voice, pleasant but still more callow than mellow, she bleats across the land a sugary lament called / Just Don't Understand...
...holiday is a national urge to gas up the family car and take to the road-and a National Safety Council compulsion to predict the number of travelers who will never get home. The ghoulish guess on highway carnage resounds on TV and radio, runs in routine lament through endless headlines and holiday editorials. Observing tradition, the Safety Council predicted that 450 corpses would litter U.S. highways during the four-day July 4 weekend. By July 5, the estimate proved conservative: 509 car riders had been killed, and "a new record" set. Lamented Safety Council Vice President George C. Stewart...
...this makes for much rough talk and romantic warbling, with which Donnybrook! at its best has little to do. Matters perk up when a pub-owning widow (Su san Johnson) sings a lament for a spouse she could not lament less; matters tinkle prettily when the wedding guests toast the bride. Matters are brightest of all by way of Eddie Foy's flings and flashbacks into American vaudeville. When Foy dances on his knees, or his feet seem caught in twisted yarn, or he just sidles off from Ireland and the show, he provides literal footnotes to a great...