Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mississippi of Mediocrity. Moreover, that homogeniety is reinforced by a tendency to feed on one another. As Mathes put it: "The editor of magazine X publishes frequently in magazine Y, which just happens to be the magazine edited by the poet who appears regularly in magazine Z." The result, as Paul Carter of The Colorado Quarterly sees it, is that "there develops a breed of poet and short-story writer found only in these magazines. I believe that The Colorado Quarterly could disappear without much notice being taken, just as it appears without much...
...more sophisticated minds, the poor, simply by standing still, are caught up in a kind of geometric regression. For the most part, they are those whom the welfare state never brushed, a residual minority tucked away in rural backwaters and urban ghettos: the Cumberland's dirt farmer, the Mississippi cotton chopper, the migrant farm worker in California's Imperial Valley, the illiterate Harlem dishwasher. They exist, as Michael Harrington wrote in The Other America, "beyond history, beyond progress, sunk in a paralyzing, maiming routine...
...responded quickly to Community Action -too quickly, as far as many mayors were concerned. In Cleveland, slum dwellers organized, marched on city hall and left dead rats on the steps to dramatize their demand for better housing. In Washington's Lafayette Square across from the White House, 90 Mississippi Negroes pitched tents to publicize their own pitiable housing situation. In Syracuse, an OEO-financed group sent jeering squads to heckle Republican Mayor William Walsh during his 1964 re-election campaign, used poverty funds to bail out demonstrators. When their funds ran out, they sent a 25-man delegation...
...same gentle humor can be found in a broadside which Faulkner distributed to campaign against prohibition in Mississippi...
...short, poor Faulkner. The quiet man who rarely ventured from his estate in Oxford, Mississippi never considered that these lesser works might one day appear within one volume. If this book is ever reissued, hopefully it will be in hideable proportions