Word: southern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholic-baiting legions are at last on the march in Alabama. Good. By next year, with the anti-Catholic madness reaching its peak, Southern Protestantism will again be revealed for what it is: an obscene collection of bigoted, Bible-clutching morons, the benighted cult of a corrupt and appallingly stupid society...
...California-born Texas A. & M. graduate, made his first general's fame as head of the XIX Tactical Air Command, which supported General George S. Patton Jr.'s Third Army on its advance through France and Germany. High point: Weyland's planes protected Patton's southern flank during the first streak to the Seine ("You do the worrying about my flank," said Patton), strafed 20,000 German troops so mightily that they surrendered to U.S. airpower...
...three mono and stereo), the principal serious effort of Vienna's operetta master, Franz Lehar, who had lifelong pretensions to grand opera. First produced at the Vienna State Opera in 1934 when Lehar was 63, the work has to do with a Carmen-like doxy in an unidentified southern fishing town who heaps misery on herself and her one true love. The gaudily exotic score boasts some sweetly melting arias, and the performance (with Hilde Gueden and Waldemar Kmentt as principals) is expert, but for the most part Giuditta is not much more than a barefoot Merry Widow...
...second wife, "by so much as the amount of cream in her morning coffee." He could have added that the hero himself does not alter by a jot, after a point early in the novel, and neither do his two tormented daughters. Observed briefly, each member of this wealthy Southern family seems whole and healthy; followed for a period of years, each one is seen to be stunned by some calamity beyond all chance of growth or shrinkage...
...still well worth reading. Feibleman is a fine stylist who almost never gets his hands sticky. He sees people shrewdly, and can set down small scenes with great poignancy. The episode that ends the book is a masterpiece-even though it parodies the whole novel and the entire Southern school of literary fungus munchers. After the hero dies, a dotty old aunt is sent to an asylum, where a doctor sets her to knitting a scarf. "The scarf is measured on Monday of each week," reports Author Feibleman, "and this is not a simple matter. It is now thirty-five...