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...Pallisers has been good for Trollope as well. When it was shown in Britain, the program started a Trollope boomlet, and it may do the same thing in the U.S. An early American admirer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, once wrote that Trollope's novels had "the strength of beef and the inspiration of ale." After a steady diet of TV gruel, Americans may find The Pallisers nutritious fare indeed...
...NATHANIEL W. FOOTE...
...Nathaniel Jones, chief counsel for the NAACP, said last week that full payment of the court award would have bankrupted the organization...
Both Fitzgerald and Faulkner, along with their less disillusioned colleague, Aldous Huxley, would have been surprised to learn that a few years after Faulkner made these remarks, two writers again turned toward Hollywood in search of the American ideal. Nathaniel West, slaving in a B-grade studio to reduce the images of silver screen gangster sagas to flicks like The Black Coin where a young hero, wearing a white sweater, is attacked regularly by four burly men in black, turned the ideal upside down. In The Day of the Locust America became a Hollywood burlesque...
Down in Mississippi, said Lawyer Nathaniel Jones bitterly, "those who resist change now realize that they can accomplish more by manipulating the legal system and the guys with the black robes than if they go out publicly in the white robes of the K.K.K." Jones, who is general counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, had good reason for his angry observation. Last week the N.A.A.C.P. narrowly averted financial disaster. Ironically for the organization that so often used the law and its own national resources to break segregation in one Southern town after another, the trouble...