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...Confederacy, he said, it was an old ethos, which, though mired in the horrors of the mid nineteenth-century South, had at least bothered to aspire to something while in the North industrialization ran amok. After the Civil War, the North took up the ideal of the gentleman planter for a while, and the legend of Lee--a fundamentally Northern myth--was born in cities full of coal and smoke. But the North was never serious about it. They took it up for fun. They took it up as a style. They took it up as a style. They took...
...capitalist enterprises, intransigent, unconstructive exploiters of native labor, drinking stengah after stengah in the local club, probably in the Somerset Maugham manner making love to each other's wives. But before I had stayed long in Malaya I learned that there was no such thing as 'the planter'-there was only X or Y." But did such false preconceptions in a fiction writer's mind come from "an unsympathetic press" or from novels he had read? Greene himself has proved to be a master at creating such stereotypes, including that dangerously gullible innocent loose in Asia...
...expropriated farm, a proud planter's legacy endures...
MARRIED. Jean-Claude Duvalier, 28, portly President for Life of Haiti; and Michéle Bennett, 27, daughter of a planter; she for the second time, he for the first; in Portau-Prince (see WORLD...
While the country was trying to figure out just what had happened, officials of the President's Reformista Party were claiming victory. But so was Guzmán. The wealthy 67-year-old rancher and coffee planter told a news conference: "It is up to the electoral board to declare me the winner. We will not allow the official election results to be altered." Manuel Joaquin Castillo, head of the board, insisted that no one had yet won and at week's end announced that the counting of ballots had resumed. He warned his countrymen, however, that...