Word: monoliths
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LEGEND HAS IT that the American South is a monolith. It had all begun by 1861, the story goes. Since the firing on Fort Sumter, the secession of 11 states and the formation of the Confederacy, Southern men and women have worshipped different heroes, anchored their beginnings to different battles and spun their folklore around a different war for independence. Their history began not in the spirit of 1976, but in the intransigence of the 1860s; not in Massachusetts Bay, but deep in the Delta of Mississippi or the Piedmont of South Carolina; not in the cradle of liberty...
...half of the voting Southerners in 1860 opposed secession? Why 54,000 whites in the 11 confederate states enlisted in the union fighting forces? How it happened that native Southern whites headed some of the most progressive Reconstruction governments? Or the remaining army of counterexamples to the South-as-monolith theory that Carl Degler unearths, catalogs and classifies in The Other South...
...GRADUATE finally finds himself on a beach. While he sits silently watching, an army of black-cloaked crusaders rides across the beach to destroy Mother Nature's last stand--a 2001-type monolith which, in this case, is a wooden post. But what can the poor boy do? Why, he just takes out a syringe and shoots up. Society has destroyed its middle-class child, and an insight often stated in a well-written paragraph has been clumsily transformed into an atrocious two-hour film...
...they had best not gaze up the 60 stories of the Hancock Building unless they prepare themselves for an aesthetic shock. For hovering above Copley Square--one of Boston's most pleasant sections--is the unfinished checkered Hancock monolith...
...part of the evening, stage center was occupied by a 33-ft. glass prism that drank in the light, threw it back out kaleidoscopically, and seemed to be imitating the mystery-of-the-universe monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey. A troupe of ballet dancers suddenly materialized to writhe to Pierre Henry's electronic sound track, which was often so loud that the management had to provide cotton balls for the ears of the audience...