Word: magnolia
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...Mississippi. Negroes from the Magnolia State are going to flock to Chicago this summer in a replay of the 1964 Atlantic City attempt to unseat the party regulars. That year the party handed Negroes a compromise, seating of two of the challengers as guests; this time, a compromise will be more difficult...
...Like most New Orleans' housing, this ward is laid out checkerboard fashion. A block of Negro homes may be followed by a block of white homes. The economic pattern is just as complex; a block of huge columned mansions screened from view by heavy oaks, crepe myrtles, or magnolia trees may be followed by a block of pleasant middle class homes which boast a few palms or maybe a banana tree, followed again by a block of near-shacks with a scraggly clump of gladiolas growing outside...
...compositions -notably by cutting off Gable's face above the hairline in closeups. Required to brush up the fading color on the original print frame by frame, studio technicians have done their job well, although there is still occasional blurring. Composer Max Steiner's original magnolia-lush score, however, sounds better than ever in a re-engineered six-channel stereo version...
...Styron, 42, left the South 20 years ago, but he goes home again in his books to stir old ashes. His first novel, Lie Down in Darkness (1951), won for him that dubious badge, "promising." And so the book was-an earnest and sometimes discerning attempt, in the Southern magnolia school of fiction, to deal with the failure of a marriage...
...Ohio. He mined the eyewitness reports of Fort Pillow survivors as preserved in the National Archives. Now a doddering 24, and an old soldier of the campus (he is taking his Ph.D. in English at Vanderbilt University, Nashville), Lentz has published a book with none of the sweet-magnolia swash and polished ballroom buckle of Gone With the Wind but much of the visceral realism that characterized MacKinlay Kantor's Andersonville...