Word: texan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FAIR SISTER, by William Goyen. Savata Drew turned from dancing in a strip joint to becoming the most successful bishop in a Negro evangelical sect in Brooklyn. White Texan William Goyen tells her story with sympathy...
...Biggest Brain." Under such pressures, Korth was known to be considering retirement-but not involuntarily. A hearty backslapper with a booming voice, Korth, 53, had political ambitions. He envied the success of fellow Texan John Connally, who preceded him as Navy Secretary before quitting to run successfully for Governor of Texas. An Assistant Secretary of the Army in 1952-53, Korth got the Navy job on the recommendation of Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric and with the approval of Vice President Lyndon Johnson, for whom Korth once served as a Fort Worth campaign manager in a Senate election...
...FAIR SISTER, by William Goyen. A white Texan peers behind the facades of the store-front cathedrals in the Negro ghettos of great East Coast cities and finds a world of religion, chicanery and entertainment that only Negroes know from the inside. The novel's heroine, part prophetess, part charlatan, is all woman...
...FAIR SISTER, by William Goyen. A white Texan peers behind the facades of the store-front cathedrals in the Negro ghettos of great East Coast cities and finds a world of religion, chicanery and entertainment that only Negroes know from the inside. The novel's heroine, part prophetess, part charlatan, is all woman...
...Negro ghettos of great cities in the eastern U.S. is almost unknown to literature for the simple reason that both priests and parishioners are not literary people; often, indeed, they are barely literate. James Baldwin was a notable exception. But William Goyen, a white, 42-year-old Texan who never tried to save anybody, gives a far more readable and enjoyable account of Negro evangelists than Baldwin...