Word: mississippians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...G.O.P. committee voted, 95 to 52, to hold its July 1980 national convention in Detroit, despite the sniping of a few Southerners who opposed meeting in a Northern city that is heavily black and Democratic. Mississippi G.O.P. Committeeman Clarke Reed commented sarcastically that he was the only white Mississippian ever to visit Detroit, "and I don't want to be the only white man from Mississippi who has been to Detroit twice." Mayor To less Coleman biased Young, who Southern is black, Republicans, tartly Young replied, said, "He can save his railroad fare." To less biased Souther Republicans, Young...
...native Mississippian, and my views of our governor are quite different. Somehow I cannot believe that racism as strong as Mississippi's brand in the early '60s can be erased in a decade, and it is especially hard to credit Finch with any such development...
Blithe Spirit. The holes were wide open as New England surged ahead with six touchdown drives in the 48-17 win over Oakland-including sustained, slugging marches of 92, 80 and 76 yds. Tackle Gray, a black, trumpet-tootling Mississippian, and his sideman, white, fiddle-playing Alabamian John Hannah, are close friends off the field and dominant on it. Tight End Russ Francis brought to the team a free spirit and a Hawaiian hex for use against opponents when he arrived as a first-round draft pick last year. Francis owns his own Beechcraft and zips around in a Maserati...
...perceived as an unbelievably hatefilled past. But Bass and DeVries could take a different view of the heritage: that the passion and faith of the Southerner, white and black, freed from racism, can be translated into a striving for justice and a rage at his exploitation. A young Mississippian was recently talking about the upcoming presidential election in that state, saying that "the people who talk--the Chamber of Commerce crowd--they're all for Ford; but the people who don't talk--the dirt farmers--are going to vote for Carter." He added something to the effect that...
...latest, though not the most fashionable "minority," Apostles of Light effectively makes its point: the very old are as invisible a group today as the blacks used to be. But Miss Douglas has composed far more than an old people's brief in fiction. A native Mississippian herself, Ellen Douglas has made her argument palpable in her milieu. The Southern-Gothic setting-decaying classical porticos plus mazes of wisteria and Confederate jasmine-closes around the reader and, like a perfect symbol, becomes the substance as well as the metaphor for the author's theme of human dissolution...