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...money. Although that might sound offensive in the abstract, Nanette does the impossible: it makes the ultimate thin plot simply charming. The theme of the show is being happy. When the middle-aged audience rises at the curtain call to join the company in song-"Life's really worth livin' / When you are mirth-givin'"-it's hard not to believe that these theatre patrons are participating in a long-awaited ritual of self-legitimization...
...dead? . . . Four times in the head, huh? . . . Who shot him? . . . You did? . . . Now get hold of yourself, dear. Why did you do it? . . . Messin' with another woman, huh? . . . Did you catch 'em in bed or something? . . . Were they naked? . . . What did your boy friend do for a livin'? . . .A laborer, huh? O.K., the squad car will be right there. Goodbye...
...long enough so the scalp doesn't show). When one of these creatures appears in town, locals gather quickly. If he speaks in strange and foreign tongues, he becomes the target of a public drive to oust him. And if he commits the ultimate heresy of talking to or LIVIN' WITH NIGGERS, he is in for trouble...
...Selma, of course, had responded, doing everything it could to make the White Niggers--and the black ones too--uncomfortable when they came to town. "Your parents and your grandparents are gonna be so ashamed," they would hiss at the workers. "Someday they's gonna find out you been livin' with niggers and making' trouble." Others were more direct. "You goddam white niggers," they would say. "Why dontcha just get out of here and leave decent folk alone...
After one visit to Selma, I was branded by association with my white nigger friends. After walking with six of them down the street, I found that I had joined the list of 'The hippies livin' with the niggers." I didn't find out about that, however, until I stupidly went in for a haircut to the Selma Barber Shop. I sat down, feeling like an innocuous white boy; I didn't realize what had happened until the barber had strapped me in and begun his lecture on the evils of liberalism, the North, and--most of all--long hair...