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...tablets and hip flasks to help smooth the ride. In one of the coach cars, Patsy Wells drawled to her friend Linda Moon, "Those Yankees will never believe simple names like ours. So for the Inauguration I'm going to be Dixie Belle Wells and you can be Magnolia Moon." Sam and Annie Taylor, a guitar-pickin' duo from Somerville, Ala., wandered from car to car as the train roared north toward Jimmy's new home. Sam had bought his first dark blue suit for the Inaugural Ball, and was singing his new composition, The Jimmy Carter...
...only prop a glass of water. With a spontaneity that makes her long-mastered speech sound newly minted, she hard-sells Jimmy Carter. These two sides of Rosalynn Carter, velvet and steel, have caused a minor quandary: she cannot decide whether to dub her swift little campaign plane Magnolia One or First Person, a women's-lib twitting of the First Lady title...
...last, the repertory theater network has its white hope: Preston Jones, 40, author within three years of three new plays as indigenous as hominy grits. Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander, The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia and The Oldest Living Graduate-known collectively as A Texas Trilogy-were brought to public attention on a typically Texan scale. Two New Year's Eves ago, Dallas Theater Center patrons experienced a triple-play production of all-night Jones that began at 7 p.m. and lasted through 2 a.m. Since then, Jones' trilogy setting, the mythical West...
...howdy wagon" hostess at 37. For the Bradleyville young who go away and come back, the big news 20 years later is, "The Dairy Queen put in a new parking lot." As for social vision, Bradleyville sees little beyond the astigmatic pathos of the Knights of the White Magnolia, a secret order that makes the Ku Klux Klan seem leftwing...
These women and many others point up one of the South's many paradoxes: the Southern woman, long limned in a moonlight-and-magnolia image, is emerging as rapidly as her Northern sister, perhaps faster. But she feels the tug of a centuries-old code of Southern femininity: Be a lady. Be the moral conscience of the family. Let your husband protect you from the baser things of life. Do not challenge or compete with men. Be nice to everyone, regardless of your actual feelings...