Word: meridian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sameness was not an enemy in convention hall. Gilbert Carmichael, who sells Volkswagens in Meridian, Miss., bakes a potato and fries a steak out in the backyard under a big old magnolia tree most Saturday nights "just like everybody else," and Alvin Berg, from McClusky, N. Dak., an undertaker, reads the daily newspapers (no books) and uses his spare time to pursue the walleyed pike in Brush Lake just like so many of his neighbors...
Thus Peter Matthiessen in his book Blue Meridian, The Search for the Great White Shark. Even Matthiessen's narrative power pales before the documentary film based on his chronicle of the hunt. In the book, he follows the obsessive quest of Peter Gimbel, department-store-heir-turned-adventurer, in the last unexplored regions of the earth. The chronicler is a fine natural historian, but at times his subject makes any words inadequate. In Blue Water, White Death, it is the camera that achieves what prose approximates. In the waters of Ceylon, Madagascar and the Mozambique Channel...
...want to state unequivocally that the FBI did not pay any sum of money to any person in connection with the attempted dynamiting in Meridian, Miss., in June 1968, which resulted in the fatal shooting of Mrs. Ainsworth and the arrest of Thomas A. Tarrants III. Nor does the FBI tolerate, condone, or participate in entrapment...
...film, which has a "relatively large budget," according to Ritchie, will portray the murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. The killing was conceived and carried out by two dozen leading citizens of Meridian and Neshoba counties, including lawmen, clergymen and businessmen...