Word: straws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LION EAT STRAW by Ellease Southerland Scribners; 181 pages...
...Lion Eat Straw is the story of Abeba, the "African Flower," who is born in rural North Carolina to an absentee father and a resentful mother. That mother soon disappears, bound for Brooklyn. Abeba's first six years pass happily with old Mamma Habblesham, a midwife, in this land of makeshift and make-believe...
...poet, she compresses a lifetime of births and deaths and suffering and love into just 181 pages. Her prose deftly captures the cadences of ghetto speech (by turns garrulous, captious, earth-smart), and her spare imagery avoids all sentimentality. Instead, as its biblical title suggests, Let the Lion Eat Straw is a graceful hymn of love...
...Florida, 70 pro-Kennedy Democrats, including some key early supporters of Carter in 1975, gathered to begin fund raising and to make plans to win a straw vote of the state party convention in November. At the state convention in 1975, Carter began his successful campaign to win the Florida primary and thus end George Wallace's presidential candidacy. Said Organizer Mike Abrams: "The country is starving for leadership...
...predecessors belonged to a fiercer school of Gospel-booming sockdolagy: back-country camp-meeting divines, like Charles Finney, exhaling vivid damnations and, later, out of the '20s, Billy Sunday, in white spats and straw skimmer, ranting indictments of "hog-jowled, weasel-eyed, sponge-columned, mush-fisted, jelly-spined, four-flushing Christians...