Word: maddoxisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...probes anti-Semitism at the Mardi Gras, an event which, he also notes, is the homosexual's Harvard-Yale game. In Arkansas, he looks into aging Gerald L.K.. Smith's religious real-estate schemes that include an Oberammergau in the Ozarks. In Atlanta, examining Governor Lester Maddox's "New Morality." Trillin records a Maddox Christmas message in which the former restaurateur noted, "There will be more automobiles, more shoes, more record-players, more television sets, more ties, more shirts, more dresses, more cosmetics, more watches and diamonds sold in the name of Christ this year than...
...American Dream. Or maybe the super cop-out. Liberal law student marries Maddox-admiring, Spiroesque Tricia. Muffled beneath her pink and pastel dresses and white lace she says, in response to the Agnew press critiques, "Never underestimate the power of fear...
When former Representative Charles Longstreet Weltner of Atlanta, the 39-year-old great grandson of the author of the Confederate Constitution, gave up his Democratic nomination for a third term in Congress rather than abide by a party loyalty oath that would have required him to support Lester Maddox, a colleague in the House commented, "We may have to wait another 50 years before we get another Charlie Weltner...
...promises of segregation forever, of a last stand at the schoolhouse door. Six newly sworn Deep South Governors have been taking a startlingly calmer line since the new year began. Most striking example: the inauguration of Georgia's Jimmy Carter, who stepped in front of his predecessor, Lester Maddox, and an audience of 5,000 to declare: "I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over." Throughout the South, there has been a note of acceptance, of moving on to the problems long neglected while race dominated the sectional debate...
Georgia's constitution bars the state's Governor from succeeding himself, so it was time last week for headline-happy Lester Maddox to leave the $3,000,000 Governor's mansion he built, step down to the lieutenant governorship and garner some finger-lickin' sweet publicity in the process. He invited folks to drop in and say goodbye-and 5,000 of them came. He dramatized the fact that the Lieutenant Governor is not provided with a car by riding his bicycle seven miles to the state capitol. And he announced some plans for augmenting...