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Inevitably, the sitdowns washed up some familiar flotsam: the duck-tailed, sideburned swaggerers, the rednecked hatemongers, the Ku Klux Klan. Stores in Durham, Greensboro and Rock Hill, S.C. were closed after getting anonymous telephoned bomb threats. Just as inevitably, the national pressure groups arrived on the scene and helped organize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Complicated Hospitality | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

As Will Varner, an old, ugly, rednecked, cigar-chomping, big daddy, who likes life too much to bother dying, Orson Welles is the quality part of an only fair production. Welles is Welles, and one is willing to sit through the film two or three times, just to hear him...

Author: By Martin Nemirow, | Title: The Long, Hot Summer | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Woman Obsessed (20th Century-Fox). "You'll never touch me again!" cries the red-haired Saskatchewan farm wife (Susan Hayward) at her rednecked husband (Stephen Boyd), who has just whopped her one in the face. She slams the bedroom door and locks it. Bellowing like a mad bull, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 15, 1959 | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

Re some of your TIME-worn adjectives, it is difficult for me to understand how we Southerners can be both "rednecked" and "lily-white" at one and the same TIME.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

No one knows whether this fall's showdown will be fought by lawyers or rednecked mobs. The cities affected are not truly Deep-South. Arlington has only 6.8% Negroes in its school system; its citizens, if not in favor of integration, at least want to keep the schools open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Integration's Next Battle | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

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