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...cost of living bugs every Floridian from Beverly Russell, the Bunny Mother at Miami Beach's Playboy Plaza, who had her rent hiked, to Maggie Murray, a ghetto grandmother in Orlando, who struggles to meet her $26-a-month electricity bill. At the same time, cattle farmers in central Florida worry about the price of beef. Drugs, too, are of great concern in Florida. "The root of most of our crime is drugs," insists an official of the Tampa Chamber of Commerce...
GERALD J. MURRAY...
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Geography does not necessarily designate the truth of a place for Murray. It is people who do that. So a subway ride from midtown Manhattan to Harlem, where he has lived for ten years, is really a trip north down home. At Yale, visiting C. Vann Woodward and Robert Penn Warren, Murray gets behind the ivy and the laurels to see these eminent men in terms of the small-town Southern traditions that formed them. He seems equally at home with the Georgia of Ralph McGill, late editor of the Atlanta Constitution. Wherever he finds himself, Murray is constantly...
...previous book, The Omni-Americans, Murray was critical of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's study of the Negro family ("Not once does he cite any Negro assets that white people might find more attractive than black subservience"). He also took off after Kenneth Clark's Dark Ghetto, whose emphasis on black wretchedness, said Murray, "easily exceeds that in most of the books written by white racists to justify segregation...