Word: natchez
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defended, but premarital sex was tolerated, and no stigma was attached to illegitimacy. Except when marriages were broken by the sale of one spouse, the clear tendency was for stable, long-lasting slave marriages. In some cases, marriages even survived successful escapes by one spouse. Gutman quotes a Natchez, Miss., slave overseer who said that slaves who outran the owners' dogs would usually stay in the vicinity and risk recapture to see their families again...
...Rousseau transmuted him into a red-skinned Cato or Brutus garbed in instinctive rectitude. And as he began to perish along the white frontier, the theme of racial destruction in a wild, vast landscape evoked lamentations from romantic artists who had never been there-especially from Delacroix, whose Les Natchez, 1824-35, is an American cousin to his Massacre at Chios...
Harvard advocate Poetry Informals. Meryl Natchez and Larry Rafferty will read from their work. Advocate House, 21 South St. 8, April 27. Free and free refreshments...
...that their forms could not have been fully perceived at ground level by their creators. Mound building had ceased by the time the first Europeans probed inland in the 16th century. But traces of the practice persisted in the burial rites of such tribes as the Creeks and the Natchez...
...scramble for subleases, drilling rights and tips on new finds, Oneida has become the newest boomtown headquarters of the oil industry. Cadillacs and Lincolns with out-of-state license plates cruise the streets. D.B. Biglane, rotund in his checked suit, swoops in almost weekly from Natchez, Miss., in his rented DC-3. Like most visiting oilmen, he wheels and deals at Tobe's Motel and Restaurant. Owner Tobe Philips, who now drives a Cadillac himself, has nearly doubled his prices and started a 16-room addition. Across town, the B & Z Motel is putting up visitors in trailers...