Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Holcombe: "In Harvard Yard there is a statue of the founder of this University. That statue was placed there by workers. The buildings of Harvard were constructed, the trees were pulled down, the land was ploughed up and foundations were put in by workers. Workers were here long before the vast bureaucracy of managers and administrators. When will we obtain the right to be heard, to be consulted on issues' that affect our lives? When will we take our rightful place as members of the Harvard community...
...been flowing North all this time. Southern music rose from the common man, but there is nothing common about its variety or the range of lives it touches and consoles. These days "country " is the handiest title to cover a multitude of sounds. At hundreds of festivals across the land, blue-grass picks and twangs its way along pretty much as it has for the past 40 years. The city of Nashville still produces its vanilla-shake love ballads with comforting monotony. Down in Austin, Texas, the country-rock cantatas of Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings are as popular...
Long after the rest of the country was losing them, the South still possessed those things that are often thought essential to great literary art: a hot sense of pride and guilt, a feel for land and family, a known way of doing things and, above all, a feeling of shared pain and history. Through the slow days and long nights, Southerners told stories -their own and the one everybody knew by heart: the brave defeat in defense of an ignoble cause...
...writers, in fact, have chafed at being pigeonholed as such. Flannery O'Connor, a Catholic whose brilliant short stories lacerated characters to get at their souls, once said flatly, "I'm interested in the old Adam. He just talks Southern because I do." But when her native land was ridiculed, she snapped, "When I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it's because we are still able to recognize one." Most Southern writers shared her stated literary purpose: "To observe our fierce and fading manners...
...renaissance in Southern literature. A brilliant group of Southern poets, novelists and playwrights threw off the bonds of imitation and poured out works of power and innovative genius that were overwhelmingly Southern in subject matter as well as style. For the mass market, cruder Southern products flooded the land: hillbilly music, gospel music, the Grand Ole Opry...