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...gentle traditions that were so often belied by violent reality, the fundamentalist religion, the romantic belief in the redeeming qualities of rural life, and the sense of the region's old isolation, poverty, backwardness and-above all-its preoccupation with race. He also believes the South has been misunderstood. In a speech at Emory University while he was Governor, Carter said: "One of the great afflictions on the South in the past ... is that ... politicians have underestimated the Southern people. This has caused the lack of... accurate analysis of the quality of the South ... by the rest...
...education, housing, community and regional development, manpower training and welfare. That would remove from the federal budget programs that now account for spending of around $90 billion a year. Though Reagan has not stressed that plan lately, he has never disavowed it; his aides insist that it has been misunderstood. The impression got around that Reagan would simply dump those programs on states and cities, which would have to raise taxes sharply to pay for them. Actually, Reagan would earmark a portion of the federal income tax collected in each state and locality to be kept there to finance...
...written novels based on their experiences, American literature would have been enriched by the following: a psychological study of treason by Benedict Arnold, detailing how a simple soldier was pressured by society to become a turncoat: a thriller by John Wilkes Booth showing how he was really a misunderstood hero who had been seduced into crime by evil Yankee villainy; a political novel by Jefferson Davis, describing the daily life and irritations of a fictional President...
There is, at least, the core of a good Hitchcock concept buried in the film. Two couples, one a little shady, the other downright criminal, pursue each other for purposes that are mutually misunderstood and increasingly scary. Lumley and his girl Blanche (Barbara Harris) divine a way to get rich through one of her clients, wealthy matron Julia Rainbird (Cathleen Nesbitt). Miss Rainbird wants to find her dead sister's illegitimate child, who was turned out of the family years before, and make restitution. If Blanche can use her spiritual powers to track down the heir, there...
...George Eliot's fiction. By making this connection, Marcus was able to uncover the roots of both devices in a need to repress consciousness of social and sexual conflict, an insight which carries over to similar social theories in our own time, and was also able to resolve a misunderstood plot in one of her stories...