Word: southerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, by William Styron. The passion and horror of the 1831 Negro slave revolt in Virginia are conveyed with eloquence in the Southern-born writer's fourth novel...
Mitten, an authority on the art of Greece and Rome, has been assistant director of the Harvard-Cornell excavations at Sardis, Turkey, since 1964. Last summer he was project director of a survey which unearthed new evidence on Troy, Southern Anatolia, and other Bronze Age sites...
Raised in Clinton, South Carolina, Sloan describes. political upbringing as non-racist, conservative, Southern Repubilcan. Shaking his head in disbelief of his own past political views, he admits that had he been of age he probably would have voted for Nixon in 1960. "But I changed when I came to Harvard," Sloan continues with more than a trace of drawl, "and I realized when I heard that Kennedy had been assassinated that I'd become a somewhat contankerous, old-fashioned liberal.... I liked Kennedy's style, he seemed to stand for a kind of rational liberalism which I felt very...
Founded seven years ago by Louisville's Baptist churches, little Kentucky Southern College (843 students) has gotten high marks in educational circles. Its finances are something else again. Cut off from federal grants by Kentucky Baptist Convention policy, K.S.C. started the current school year on the verge of bankruptcy. Even severing its Convention ties did not help; a federal grant could not be obtained in time. The only alternative to receivership, said President Rollin S. Burhans, was to agree to a proposed merger with the University of Louisville...
...applicant from a Southern high school, for example, solicited reports from two teachers. "I believe he is a deserving student," one wrote. The admissions committee reads that 10,000 times a year, Peterson says, and "it's hard to keep listening." The other teacher wrote, "Despite his humble and low-class origin, it is clear that he has somehow developed the manners and behavior of a young gentleman." The boy was admitted, despite an academic rating...