Word: south
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...carlessness and the quiet appeal to all of Port Grimaud's regulars. Actor Jacques Charrier, Brigitte Bardot's ex-husband and one of the Port's celebrity set, says that "I've tried every kind of holiday in the south of France. I've rented the most luxurious villas. You end up every time driving your children back and forth between the house and the beach. You spend half your vacation in your car." Still, it is the proximity to boats that truly delights. As one man puts it: "I jump...
Often bored, the troops were fair game for anyone with political ambitions. In A.D. 196 and again in A.D. 296, the legions left their posts to follow imperial pretenders. Each time the barbarians immediately swept south across the unmanned wall and ravaged towns and villas. Decaying loyalties were also responsible for the third-and last-debacle. Agents called the Arcani, or secret ones (whom Divine identifies as "part of the Roman CIA"), apparently took bribes, conspiring with enemy tribesmen who were forming a broad anti-Roman alliance in Britain. In A.D. 367, the wall fell by assault. This time...
...there are two things about the Civil Rights Movement. First, it was an experience shared by a very small number of youths. Even at the peak of the movement there couldn't have been over a couple of thousand white northern kids actually living and working in the South. Secondly, that was all a long time ago. The Civil Rights workers were college students then. They've almost all (except for a few press-publicized movement "leaders") grown up and gotten married or something. They've drifted away. Hardly any of the new generation of rabble rousers have ever...
...were driving through the South during the past week, I could taste the glory and respectability of the old civil rights days. Parents, teachers, ministers lauded us for going down there. Life magazine spoke of heroism. When we were murdered by police, the vast majority of adults in this country turned purple with unspeakable outrage. They loved us then. And now? In our latest adventure they brought the police on us themselves...
...Alabama country which is 85 per cent back. For years whites held all the elected positions. Then, with the coming of the Civil Rights Movement, Negroes started working their way into the system. It was Macon County that elected the first black sheriff ever (or since reconstruction) in the South. (His name was Lucius Amerson. It got lots of New York Times coverage when it happened. It also turned out what he wasn't much better than the white guys, but you'd have to know the South to understand that...