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King recognizes three stages of "historical consciousness"--a term poorly defined by him and most others who overuse it--in the Southern Renaissance, an intellectual outburst after World War I that includes William Faulkner, Allen Tate, Thomas Wolfe, Lillian Smith, W.J. Cash, C. Vann Woodward, and Robert Penn Warren. King observes that these three historical stages leading up to the Southern Renaissance--repitition, recollection, reassimilation--parallel exactly the process of psychoanalysis. The writer and historians of this era, climaxing in Woodward, struggled to reassess the Southern burden, the Gone With the Wind fantasy of hoopskirts and grace, the centerpiece...
...year-old retired champion says he is now officially unretired and has started training for a preliminary bout with Scott LeDoux in June. In addition, plans are in the making for an Ali-John Tate heavyweight championship fight in September...
...question that Ali has lost attention since he retired, and the man thrives on being surrounded by cheering crowds and inquisitive reporters. There is also no question that the man lives well, and the proposed $7 million paycheck he will receive for climbing in the ring against Tate will buy a lot of car batteries. But, is it worth it? Muhammad Ali is no longer the fighter he once was. A young and enthusiastic Cassius Clay, with the quick hands and feet that never touched the canvas, has become a chunky Muhammad Ali. The stomach muscles that withstood the barrages...
...strained in "In the Islands," where she leaps from a resort hotel to a graveyard for Vietnamese soldiers to James Jones, with no clear direction. In this first essay, she describes a Doors recording session, a college protest, a dress she bought for the star witness in the Sharon Tate murder trials, and creates a whirling kaleidoscope. She draws no conclusion because she cannot--her memories are too vivid to allow a comforting generality...
...Amado's orchids in "Quiet Days in Malibu" by a flash fire confirms Didion's view of live as an unpredictable but inevitable series of large and small tragedies. In "The White Album," Didion notes that neither she nor her friends was surprised at the news of the Sharon Tate murders. She walks through her days anticipating horror, sporadically paralyzed by migraines, dreaming of "the children burning in the locked car in the supermarket parking lot...the freeway sniper who feels 'real bad' about picking off the family of five...