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To much of the nation, the South is a place apart, with manners and mores all its own. Yet not in 100 years has its role had such implications for the future of America as now. Last month more than 70 TIME correspondents, writers, reporter-researchers and editors set out...
Carter is confident of his ability to sound knowing on the issues; the press and public have been chewing on him for more than a year. He is a cool, collected performer. His speech at the Democratic Convention in July showed how much personal force lies behind the soft voice...
Fading Manners. Southern writers did not form a school. The works they produced were far less of a piece than is usually imagined. Welly's gentle, loving Mississippians live at a vast remove from Faulkner's tormented, often tormenting souls. Many Southern writers, in fact, have chafed at...
Hollywood movies of the '30s and '40s left no doubt about the Southern woman: she was a Jezebel. In fact, the traditional problem is not rebellion but "niceness," or what Journalist Florence King calls "the compulsive need to be sweet." A Southern woman is obliged to smooth over...
Aspirant players who wish to improve their game or their court manners without benefit of Eastern philosophy are free (at $200 for five days' instruction, plus room and board) to try Gallwey's most eminent competition. By California standards, it is just down the road, at Coto de Caza near...