Word: swamping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home storytelling and faculty-lounge chitchat. The storytelling is rich. The chitchat, consisting of philosophical jar gon in several languages, is rather brittle. The heroine, a rural Candide named Faith Cross, is told by her dying mother to find life's Good Thing. She seeks guidance from a swamp witch, a withered and warty old necromancer with one green and one yellow...
...swamp witch messes about with chicken blood and hogs' entrails, and ticks off possibilities. The Good Thing, she cackles, "must be the right function-in' of an organism as it participates in a form, or the fulfillment of a Ideological principle inherent in all matter, or ..." This owlish comedy is a blackface up side-down version of Merlin's routine in T.H. White's The Once and Future King. Merlin, who had all philosophy beneath his pointed hat, kept getting his spells confused. The swamp witch, who seems confused, spouts philosophy as if she were Hegel...
...anesthetized by hair spray and appliance hum, then, cast off and pregnant, the victim of a ghetto fire Finally back in Georgia, withered and maimed, she completes the seven ages of black woman (something like this seems to be in the author's mind) by be coming a swamp witch herself...
...very surprised with the jump," Embree said. "This place is like a swamp and I really wasn't jumping that well. In fact I almost missed at six-four. But I'll take it for an off day," he grinned...
...Tufts field, which resembled a swamp in certain places, was a big factor in the contest. It hampered passing and slowed down the play as the ball often came to a complete halt in the numerous puddles on the field. Footing, particularly toward the end of the game was non-existent...