Word: vann
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...nearly every page of South to a Very Old Place, a highly syncopated memoir of youth and a celebration of U.S. Negro culture. It is a perfect companion volume to Willie Morris' North Toward Home, the pair constituting a sort of thank-you gift to Historian C. Vann Woodward for his helpful advice that it is foolish to try to think of the white Southerner without thinking about the black Southerner at the same time. The book, in fact, grew out of an assignment Murray got from Morris when he was editor of Harper's magazine. The idea...
Geography does not necessarily designate the truth of a place for Murray. It is people who do that. So a subway ride from midtown Manhattan to Harlem, where he has lived for ten years, is really a trip north down home. At Yale, visiting C. Vann Woodward and Robert Penn Warren, Murray gets behind the ivy and the laurels to see these eminent men in terms of the small-town Southern traditions that formed them. He seems equally at home with the Georgia of Ralph McGill, late editor of the Atlanta Constitution. Wherever he finds himself, Murray is constantly...
...first denial came from John PaulVann, an American pacification worker who was recently appointed Dzu's senior U.S. adviser. "If there has been any wrongdoing of this nature," said Vann, "I am not aware of it." Other sources close to Dzu claimed that Steele had based his charges on the letter signed by Dzu's 27 dissident officers...
...accept this new place for the blacks in their midst. It is not surprising that this process has taken so long, for though it lost the Civil War, the South succeeded at spiritual secession. In other words the South has been isolated from the national experience. Notes Historian C. Vann Woodward: "Success and victory are still national habits of mind." Or as Arthur Schlesinger puts it: "American character is bottomed upon the profound conviction that nothing in the world is beyond its power to accomplish." The Southern experience, on the other hand, is not with success, but with failure...
Though the U.S. is footing some of the bill, Saigon figures it will cost the Vietnamese taxpayer 50 cents a day to supply each refugee with 50 grams of rice, dried fish and cooking oil, as well as medical assistance. "This is an essential humanitarian operation," said John Paul Vann, chief American pacification adviser in the Delta region. Noting that the refugees seem quite loyal to the Saigon government, Vann added that it "should have fantastically good results for my pacification program." One of the refugees, an old, half-blind widow named Nguyen Thi Mai, put it more simply...