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Blacks in the South have made greater strides than in the rest of the country and are more hopeful of the future. For this historic breakthrough, blacks themselves are primarily responsible. In the face of intense white resistance, their struggle for equality was bitter, costly and ultimately triumphant. But whites too have profited from the change. They have been liberated from an obsessive preoccupation with an unjust system of discrimination; they can now turn to more constructive projects...
...catalytic genius? Whatever the reason, Southern writing today, at the moment of what may be that region's first national triumph in over 100 years, seems stalled between the glorious past and an uncertain future. The past, in fact, has become a burden to its inheritors. On their triumphant march, the older authors left much of the terrain scorched earth. Writers who now elect to deal in moldering mansions and history-whipped alcoholics risk unfavorable comparisons with Faulkner. Indeed, no one who writes on the South can escape Faulkner's shadow. Says Novelist Walker Percy: "The problem...
Your article "The Wall Triumphant," describing Berliners as "embittered and demoralized" in their "rundown and dreary" surroundings [Aug. 23], only furthers the myth of a Berlin populated by a handful of manic-depressive refugees clothed in gray sweatshirts. To the 2 million-plus people living freely within the 185 square miles of West Berlin, your comments ring contrary to a firm belief- "Berlin ist eine Reise wert" (Berlin is worth a journey...
...Emerging triumphant from a dramatic but not too disorderly convention, President Ford has cut down Jimmy Carter's lead for the presidency. Ford now commands 40% of the vote and Carter 46%, with, 14% undecided. In June, just before the Democratic Convention, the President trailed his opponent 38%-47%. Once the glow from Kansas City wears off, Ford may drop farther behind, but three out of four voters expect the contest to be down to the wire, and a variety of indicators support their viewpoint. Such are the findings of a nationwide telephone survey of 1,544 registered voters...
...suicide. He spoke and wrote about death in the dreamy, love-struck manner of a man talking about the sloop he is going to buy when he finishes putting his kids through college. To honor death, he wore a black carnation in his buttonhole. He saw suicide as a triumphant adventure, as a poet's most splendid poem, as a giggle, as a glorious stunt and especially as an explosive union with the godhead...