Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richberg's Cafe on U.S. Highway 11 in Enterprise, Miss., served customers Southern style: blacks entered and ate at one end of the establishment, whites at the other, with a partition in between. That type of separation was outlawed in 1964 by the public-accommodation section of the Federal Civil Rights Act, which applied to the cafe because substantial quantities of food and beverages served came from outside the state. But such new-found laws were not about to move Proprietor A. W. Richberg. When the Federal Government sued, Richberg simply renamed the cafe's white section "Dixie...
...Southern California landscape, there has sprung up like desert flowers a new variety of artists. They talk of a new esthetic ("art as a symbolic medium is dead"), but these young Angelenos are basically united only by a determination to prove that creativity and innovation can flourish outside New York's hegemony. "They are just isolated, friendly, ambitious young people who share a fierce outlook," says James Monte, a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Because they live in a backwater, they had to remake the whole scene...
...divorced from the conventions of oil paint and bronze-plastics, neon, acrylics, Plexiglas, aluminum. They also share a preoccupation with a visual illusionism that plays with space and color to make the eye see beyond the surface of the work, perhaps inspired by the clear, bright light of Southern California (on its non-smog-gy days). The result, if not so divergent from similar work in the New York orbit as the Californians like to think, nevertheless offers a wide cornucopia of shapes, colors and visual sensations that display genuine individuality and vitality (see color pages). > Craig Kauffman, 36, studied...
...Anyone who tries to say that fewer than half the students in any high school in Southern California have taken pot doesn't know what he's talking about," insists Caldwell Williams, guidance counselor at Los Angeles' University High. Cub scouts in San Francisco discuss the pros and cons of pot with savvy, and in nearby San Rafael a marijuana sale took place right in class before the eyes of the astonished sixth-grade teacher. Nor is the increase in pot use limited to California. When the headmaster of a Colorado boarding school asked students who were...
...Missouri. The most impressive growth has come in book retailing, notably the cluster of B. Dalton bookshops that Dayton's has opened in the Middle West and West in the past two years. This month the company strengthened this division by acquiring the eight-store Pickwick chain, Southern California's leading bookseller...