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...plenty of Southern tales. He told me about blasting cans in a crick--"You'd throw the beer can and take the pistol, and bang"--and, having grown up in Arkansas myself, I recounted freezing duck hunts on the Cache River. But Clark trumped me. He launched into a "Mama-thon"--how "beautiful" she was, how "capable." There was even a Faulknerian touch. "She wasn't good with babies, let's put it that way," he said of the late Veneta Clark, who became a working mother after Clark's dad died of a heart attack when...
...Southernness not only stands for moderate, red-state politics. It also carries a cultural meaning, one that Clark hints at with his sad Mama tales: We're average people. In Edwards' new book, Four Trials, people are never just people--they are always "regular people" or "decent people" or folks with "good common sense...
...lesson Edwards and Clark learned from 1992 and 2000 is that the more down-to-earth guy won. Clinton was the kid who had survived his own Gothic mama and his stepfather's struggles with alcohol; Bush was the average guy who, with Christ's help, survived his own. But sometimes you can try too hard to be average--even with a Southern accent. --With reporting by Mitch Frank with Edwards
...forget Paris. And Funny Cide. And Baghdad Bob. Because, like that steaming plate of Mama's meatballs served up by a celebrity chef, there are some inhabitants of the high-wattage spotlight who were just never meant to stay hot for long. This year's menu...
...article like this confirms my assertion that there is no honor at Harvard; divinity left with the monks. If the students of Harvard lived and ate as those monks, they would run crying home to mama. Grow up Harvard. Father Roman of St. Danilov Monastery has more humility than the Harvard Divinity School and more religion under his finger nail than all of Harvard. Burn your money, children, for you do not trust...