Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rolling Virginia countryside some 30 miles from Washington, Confederate troops bloodied Union armies twice in the Civil War battles of Manassas. Now Manassas is up in arms again, this time over a 20th century invader: a 1.2 million-sq.-ft. shopping center that is being bulldozed on a site that served as Robert E. Lee's headquarters in 1862. "Greed is fighting a battle with our heritage," charges Annie Snyder, leader of the Save the Battlefield Coalition, a group struggling to protect the 540 acres adjacent to Manassas National Battlefield Park. "Developers want to pave over ground where brave...
...Wolfe has experienced the serious and the considered, even if his more famous works seem on the flippant side to some. Wolfe earned a B.A. cum laude from Washington and Lee University in his native Virginia and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. After Yale, he started climbing a traditional journalism ladder, moving rapidly from The Springfield Union to The Washington Post and then on to The New York Herald Tribune...
...epitome of Northeast cynicism and satire--leading Harvard's Leland to compare Wolfe to an H.L. Mencken of the 1980s--in person, he has a luxurious style unique to South and to Southerners. "He is a wonderful companion and is a kind of a modern-day embodiment of a Virginia gentleman," Felker says. "He has very courtly manners combined with modern-day sensitivities...
Before he was elected president, Woodrow Wilsonbecame famous as the president of Princeton andthe governor of New Jersey. But he grew up asTommy Wilson in Virginia. Though he left theSouth, the South never left him. He was once askedin his later years about his attachment to aregion in which he had not lived for decades. "Inthe South," he replied, "nothing has to beexplained...
...aristocrat who insisted on creating a backwoods image as "Old Hickory." Prominent achievers like Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford all fit the profile. Others that make the grade are less well known. They include a Long Island vampire expert, a California professor of frog psychology and a Virginia doctor who disports himself in a clown's nose and goofy hats and refuses to charge his patients...