Word: selma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With its Evelyn Waugh drawl, Social Disease is Rudnick's revenge on the less- than-zilch nightlife novels of the mid-'80s. So I'll Take It (1989) must be his anti-Portnoy. A Jewish boy who loves and enjoys his mother -- call the cops! Paul's mom Selma and her sisters Lillian and Hilda are the models for Hedy Reckler and her bargain-hunter siblings. The novel is "only" about a New England shopping tour, on which Hedy's son Joe hitches a ride. But if war novels can teach us about manhood, why can't a shopping novel...
...town is more emblematic of the South's segregationist past than Selma, Alabama, where black Baptist clergyman Martin Luther King Jr. led a climactic civil rights march in 1965. But a racial line has now disappeared in Selma, as delegates from 24 congregations in Alabama's dominant Southern Baptist faith voted to admit the Freedom Baptist Church as the first black member of the city's Baptist association. Said newly entering pastor Letha Rumph: "I can see that a revival has begun in Selma." A white colleague, the Rev. Ron Davis, chimed in: "God won't let us fail...
...EYES were on Pennsylvania's Senate race when a very liberal Democratic newcomer (one who went to Selma, Alabama during the '50s--before Martin Luther King Jr.) started gaining on a former two-term governor whose politics are pure Pennsylvania--a middle-of-the-road Middle Atlantic state that hates both far-right candidates and most Democrats...
...superficial. A Guyanese woman with a high-class English background, she is self-consciously eccentric and her air of "ravaged elegance" is rather unconvincing. Even worse, many of the characters have a distressing habit of prattling in a stereotyped patois reminiscent of Uncle Tom's Cabin: "Oh, God, Selma, how is I goin' get money for fix me teeth...
...scary to imagine a world--and an America--where people are allowed to just follow orders. It is a world that would sanction moral atrocities like those committed by Nazi guards, Selma police and South African security forces. Is that the kind of world that anti-war activists want...