Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well worth the price of admission. Beethoven and Napoleon materialize, as do Concord coaches, corduroy roads and a fully outfitted Mississippi River steamboat. With a few judicious details as props, Gavin creates palpable illusions of scenes 150 years old. Schlumberger and a companion stalk the New York waterfront at night: "Now and then they entered the nimbus of a gas lamp hovering just over their heads like a phosphorescing sea creature. Schlumberger heard the sinister hiss behind the glass. One pace beyond the lamp his shadow was squeezing from under his heel squat as a dwarf, and four strides later...
...group of Harvard students raised $950 for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) this year to help finance its appeal of a decision awarding $1.25 million to Mississippi shopkeepers the NAACP allegedly damaged during a 1966 boycott protesting racial discrimination...
...BEAUTY QUEEN. Nancy White, 22, of the University of Mississippi, a public-administration major, planned to go to law school. Then she won a string of beauty titles, including Miss University at Ole Miss and first alternate to Miss Mississippi, so she began eyeing a more glamorous career in television. This summer she is entering graduate school at Ole Miss with a radio/TV fellowship. She has landed her first journalistic job-as studio manager of the university's closed circuit cable television station. "It's an exposure-conscious field and there are a lot of attractive women...
...life, from his violence-scarred childhood in Mississippi to his self-imposed exile in Paris where he died, aged 52. Black Novelist Richard Wright was an outsider. His existence, in fact, was a series of painful partings as he gave up family, friends, roots, Communism and finally his country. He was at home only in the demonic narrative drive and descriptive intensity that produced Native Son and Black...
...this fragment of an autobiography, written in the early 1940s but withheld from publication until now, Wright tells of his tumultuous, troubled early manhood. In his 20s he left the South for Chicago, where he found relief from the physical brutality of Mississippi. But he was introduced to subtler forms of intimidation. If the whites no longer kicked him, they inevitably stepped on the spot that Wright was mopping in the hospital laboratory and tracked the dirty water around. "If I ever really hotly hated unthinking whites," he recalls, "it was then. Not once during my entire stay...