Word: virginia
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Then, in 1974, Republicans suffered a serious setback. The Southern G.O.P. lost one seat in the U.S. Senate, seven in the House and 82 in state legislatures ?including 40 in North Carolina alone. The main reasons were voter protests against Watergate and the recession, but Virginia Congressman M. Caldwell Butler, a moderate Republican who was one of several Southern stars on the House Judiciary Committee that voted for impeachment of President Nixon, ascribes to the G.O.P. of his own state a flaw that applies elsewhere as well. Says he: "Republicans in Virginia have fallen heir to the extremist conservative...
...South was the "Sahara of the Bozart"-mediocre, stupid, lethargic. So insisted Supercynic H.L. Mencken. Even Virginia, the "most civilized" state in the South, was an "intellectual Gobi or Lapland," where education "had sunk to the Baptist-seminary level; not a single contribution to human knowledge has come out of her colleges in 25 years...
Since Mencken published his notorious essay in 1920, many oases have bloomed in that Sahara, among them the present-day Universities of North Carolina, Texas and Virginia as well as Duke, Vanderbilt, Rice and Tulane. Nevertheless, when indices of excellence are applied to higher education, the South, in general, comes up short. Slightly more than a quarter of the nation's 3,016 accredited institutions are located there, but a 1970 study showed that the South had only 5% of the nation's best graduate programs and just 8% of the best graduate faculties. In 1975 fewer than...
...small tobacco farmer in Virginia, Fuqua could not afford to go to college, but he did read "books, books, books" on radio and finance. At age 21 he persuaded backers to start a new radio station in Augusta, Ga., for him to run. J.B. soon talked the owner of a bottling company into selling out for a share of future profits. Wheeling and dealing, he was able to buy his own radio station in 1949; by 1953 he had branched into TV. The profits allowed him to use his spare time to serve four terms in the Georgia legislature...
...Firor Scott, "a Southern woman could get away with an awful lot." A young Georgia-born woman-now a writer in New York-recalls her mother drumming into her head: "Do, but don't be seen doing." Says Molly Haskell, a Manhattan movie critic who was raised in Virginia, "One day one of my teachers said to us, 'Women rule the world.' But it was supposed to be a secret...