Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ralph McGill and Senator Fulbright are faithful representatives of the South: the two men, as well as the region, suffer some kind of moral schizophrenia, though in the case of the publisher and the Senator, they represent this malady in opposite directions. They reflect the most unenviable aspects of the heritage of the political culture of the South. Jingoism and racism. Each man has been able to overcome one of these burdens in his public life, but not both...
...most of the Southern and border states, Humphrey is the man to beat?but neither Kennedy nor McCarthy can do it. The Vice President may come out of that region alone with 600 votes or more, nearly half of the 1,312 required to win in Chicago...
...civil rights, Humphrey is in a commanding position in the South. He is a militant old liberal, to be sure, but he strikes many Southern Democrats as the most responsible of the three contenders for the nomination. Some who have come to regard Johnson as a traitor to his region can respect Humphrey for his consistent position. In Louisiana, Governor John McKeithen-a possible running mate-promised: "This delegation will be enthusiastically for Humphrey, and I will play a prominent role...
...novel is a fortyish exile returned from Palestine after World War I to the East European town of his youth. Moving into a small hotel, the wanderer becomes "that man who was a guest for the night and stayed for many nights." Agnon himself was born in the Galicia region of Austro-Hungarian Poland, went to Palestine as a very young man, then back to Europe during World War I before returning to his adopted homeland. Obvious elements of disenchanted autobiography are present in the words that another character speaks to the guest: "When a man sees that there...
Rahdrav, in the region Eeknay, is PDI. Wahs, in the region Leber...