Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...target was the 22-judge Southern District of New York, which includes Manhattan and is the busiest federal court in the U.S. His solution was pragmatic and to the point. He assigned eleven federal judges from areas as far-flung as California and Tennessee to sit temporarily in New York. Each of the eleven visitors, whose own home courts are relatively up to date, will hear civil jury cases in New York for a month; the whole program will continue for at least two months in an effort to reduce the waiting period for civil cases, which...
...observers of the area: Erskine Caldwell, who immortalized the mores of Dixie in such bestselling novels as Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre. In a new book of factual reporting called Deep South (Wey-bright & Talley; $6.50), Caldwell gives eyewitness testimony that the basic beliefs of many Southern churches have been left untouched by the changes affecting the rest of U.S. Christianity...
...Presbyterian minister, Caldwell, 64, has toured the rural Southern states every summer for the past three years, visiting revival meetings and churches. Though "rural camp-meetings have been replaced by brick-walled auditoriums and revival tents by rainproof sheds," he writes, the raucous rhythms of lined-out hymns and "the resounding babble of glossalalia" can still be heard-evidence that neither drive-in movies nor television has "diminished the appeal that uninhibited religious exhibitions have as popular entertainment." One Cumberland mountaineer told Caldwell: "I always go to church on Sundays to get my soul saved like the preacher says...
...urban Southern Baptist and Methodist congregations there is a growing spiritual sophistication about interpreting the Bible. But in country villages, among the fervent fundamentalist churchlets, the literal truth of God's word is an unalterable axiom. "Even the mention of Christ walking on water or Jonah being swallowed by a whale can quickly develop into an insoluble controversy if it is suggested that such miracles are symbolic," writes Caldwell. In one such back-country church recently, he says, the congregation became concerned when the minister neglected to specifically reaffirm from the pulpit that Christ was born of a virgin...
With good weather all year round, southern schools can practice all year and are traditionally super-powers in the world of golf. The bleak New England winter drove the Crimson clubmen into Dillon Field House, where they could practice shots...