Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born a slave baby in 1865, down in Orange County, Virginia," he said. "I started preaching when...
...delegation waited on Virginia's Governor John Battle, who patiently recited the long history of judicial review, pointed out that there was not the "slightest suggestion" of police brutality. "These people were not convicted because they were Negroes," said Battle. "Neither should they be released because they are Negroes...
...invent the art of guerrilla war, but they were once very good at it. U.S. military history is studded with great guerrilla names-General Francis Marion ("the Swamp Fox"), who fought hit & run campaigns in the Carolinas and Georgia in the American Revolution; Captain John Mosby, Confederate raider in Virginia and Maryland; General John Hunt Morgan of Alabama.* In World War I, when mass production and massed firepower became an overriding factor, Americans lost interest in the art of making much of little. In Korea, the U.S. is being forced to rediscover the lost...
...their own. Two secretaries keep busy mailing out the classic shot of Betty Grable in a tight bathing suit. Studies of Rita Hayworth, who has not made a movie since 1948's The Loves of Carmen, are still in demand. Also in high favor: Jane Russell, Esther Williams, Virginia Mayo...
Like most legends, Burns's is fact-resistant, but responsible scholars try to retouch it occasionally. Cornell University's David Daiches (rhymes with gracious) is the latest to try, and does one of the best jobs. Critic Daiches (Virginia Woolf, Robert Louis Stevenson) scans the poet's lines more closely than his life. Even so, he manages to clear away enough romantic rubble to expose a Burns who could say: "Even in the hour of social mirth, my gaiety is the madness of an intoxicated criminal under the hands of the executioner." Burns came by his melancholy...