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...sketch out the anatomy of the vote, TIME correspondents across the nation kept close tab on carefully selected, representative precincts on Election Night, interviewing voters and comparing the final vote tallies with those of previous elections. From their reports, the following analysis of key voting groups emerges...
Some have gone far toward the North Pole, to invade the haunts of the iceberg with their inquisitive and unsparing eyes-some have gone to the far West, where Nature plays with the illimitable and grand-some have become tropically mad, and are pursuing a sketch up and down the Cordilleras, through Central America and down the Andes. If such is the spirit and persistency of American art, we may well promise ourselves good things for the future...
Well, among other things, there is a geriatric gang bang, a ballet stressing the sexual symbolism of motorcycles, and a sketch about a young man's sexual initiation into a jaded Restoration court where the male courtiers are equipped with waving phalluses...
Johnson is master of the arresting detail, the vivid personality sketch. In an evocative little essay on St. Ambrose, the Roman magistrate who became Bishop of Milan in 373, he pauses to note Augustine's surprise when he found that Ambrose could read silently to himself-a rare skill in the ancient world. Discussing the opening of the Council of Trent, the great 16th century Catholic assembly that began the Counter Reformation, he observes how Christoforo Madruzzo, the host bishop, opened the meeting with a 74-dish banquet and 100-year-old wine. After dinner, Madruzzo...
Bass and DeVries do not sketch the background quite that way. Not that they don't agree; they're just more interested in how the foregoing portrait of Southern politics has shattered since the post-war ascendance of economic development and black equality. Southern politics rested, until the last few years, on a consensus of sorts between upper and lower class whites: most white political leaders did nothing to eradicate the inefficient small holdings of poor white farmers, nor did they try to diminish the privileges of poor whites in general versus blacks. For their part, the mass of Southern...