Word: small-town
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...problem of fundamentalism is that it cannot withstand critical Biblical scholarship and scientific facts. "No person with any knowledge of history or archaeology could possibly buy this fundamentalist stuff," says Mead. And the moment small-town boys go to college, "they take a course in biology, and their faith is gone. Our great sin is never having offered them a real alternative...
...L.B.J. has no "style"? Indeed he has, but it is a style either unrecognized or despised by a wide cross section of American liberals: that of the small-town Protestant worthy. Before jumping to the conclusion that therefore he is not big enough for the job. the scoffers should recall that Lincoln was called a "baboon" by Punch...
...Magnolia Drive-in. Her no-good husband Henry (Steve McQueen) is a parolee who heads a string band and hankers to get famous with his songs, like Elvis Presley. Georgette jes' wants a home for her daughter, Margaret Rose. But all they do to achieve their small-town dreams is fidget on sunbaked street corners, wearing plain cotton. Or maybe they stare at each other, sort of hungry-like, creating pauses so long and wide a hundred head of cattle could amble right through them...
...dead begin to seem nearly as quick as the living, and reminiscences have the soft, nostalgic sheen of loved stories often told. Author Humphrey deftly weaves them into a leisurely ramble through Southern history and Texas geography, with stops along the way for circuses and barbecues, political rallies and small-town jails, courting scenes and courtroom dramas, jokes, pranks and tall tales...
...small-town Southern sheriffs invariably fat, ugly, ignorant, and look like they smell...