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IT GIVES NOTHING AWAY TO REVEAL that near the end of Alice McDermott's lyrical novel At Weddings and Wakes, there is a joyous wedding celebration. The bride, an aging ex-nun, allows herself to be swirled by her staid groom, a mailman who unexpectedly proves a sure-footed dancer...
The Opry is well known to be the citadel of country conservatism -- an ornery character like Earle, more rock oriented and bolder lyrically, might use the word conformity -- but Travis will pay homage to tradition. Earle will joke about his "heavy-metal bluegrass" sound, and share, with Crowell and Griffith...
"Yancey was an unlikely victim who just came on the scene and got grabbed," said Ricardo Townes, an assistant director of a university minority program who is helping investigate the fight. "While he was being beaten, someone said, 'Oh, he's not the guy.'"
Townes said the fight was no indication of race relations in the Connecticut River Valley, where the schools lie. "This is my 10th year here, and I wouldn't stay if things were as bad as I've heard some people make them out to be."
But Townes said he was dismayed by what he called racist attitudes among campus police and students from small, homogeneous towns.