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...little time to explore his subjects' intellectual evolutions. Yet these, too, seem basic to his thesis that the Southern environment bred a peculiar type of reformer. He mentions in passing that many of them, although native to the region, studied outside the South. James Madison Wells, a wealthy Louisiana planter who became a radical Republican when the War began, attended a Cincinnati law school, and there are some Yale men among the dissenters. Were they stranded from the South's social and intellectual confines after their leaves of absence? Degler also gives examples of slaveholding white Southerners who began...
...James' secret sense of anguishing incompleteness seemed hopeless. The doctors whom he saw blithely suggested that he wear gayer clothes, or bluffly urged him to "soldier on for a lifetime" as a male. Then he met Elizabeth Tuckniss, the daughter of a Ceylon tea planter...
Percy obviously cared about people on an individual basis, but more than that, he had the kind of mind that fuses nature and art and life into a single, albeit often inconsistent vision. Being a planter, a statesman and a poet all at the same time is an attractive idea to Southerners because it implies having a unified, romantic world-view, where the things that govern men are the same things that govern poetry and nature. With this way of looking at the world, Percy could write about politics in one sentence, Greek drama in the next, and "the savage...
...come to power via the unions. Political Scientist Uria Forbes of Antigua's University of the West Indies observes: "The boss-man of the union has emerged as the charismatic political leader of the laboring class, always the predominant group on the islands. He has replaced the old planter aristocrat as well as the old British governor...
...mensaje a long one and not all valuable. But oh yes here: THE RICE PLANTER AND THE RICE GLEANER ARE ONE. THE GATHERER-AND-GLEANER FEEDS US AND SO IS NAMED "THE LOVELY ONE." BUT THE LOVELY ONE STANDS IN DANGER OF HUNGER AND OF LOSING HIMSELF WHILST WE GROW PLUMP...