Word: scattergood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grandfather DeWhit, a Dionysian Scattergood Baines, is not only the commu nity's pillar but its lingam as well. Hints of his sexual reconnaissance on both sides of the color line are rampant...
...these eminent men in terms of the small-town Southern traditions that formed them. He seems equally at home with the Georgia of Ralph McGill, late editor of the Atlanta Constitution. Wherever he finds himself, Murray is constantly in search of that Southern something-a mercurial notion, part Scattergood Baines, part Snopes, part blues, and part Confederate sentimentality. But then change and complexity are what Murray is all about. He is a literary man who never tires of applying aesthetics to the shortcomings of social scientists...