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Among the hard-boiled mountaineers who came from Kentucky and West Virginia to work in the automobile plants, there was never any love for straw bosses. As a West Virginian called Short Laig remarked: "I aim tew get that baster who be my fore-main...
...Armed Forces, Moll Flanders, Crime and Punishment, A Farewell to Arms, Isherwood's Prater Violet, Sons and Lovers, Up Front, Eugene O'Neill's Plays, The Portable Dorothy Parker, Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Villon's Poems, Candide, Owen Wister's The Virginian, Rimbaud's Season in Hell, Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, Ward's The Snake Pit, Wakeman's The Hucksters...
Sullivan didn't admire all the Union selections-he had never read The Anatomy of Melancholy, considers Chesterfield dull and pompous, and The Virginian "tame stuff for a student in the atomic age." Besides, nobody had stolen any Shakespeare or Dickens. His consoling afterthought: "Well, the academic year is only half over...
...Yankee Twang. Captain Blackford, meanwhile, had fought at Bull Run, bivouacked along the Rappahannock, marched to the Confederacy's high-water mark at Gettysburg and returned with the ebbing tide. In victory or defeat, he decided, Pennsylvania held no charms for a Virginian. "Never in my life have I seen so many ugly women." Furthermore, the "men, women and children are all afflicted with a yankee twang...
...taste ever since she went to Miss Porter's select school at Farmington, Conn., where she learned to play the viola. After running away from Miss Porter's four times, she restrained herself until she reached 19, then did "what one does at 19": eloped with a Virginian who had a string of ponies. Four years later one of the ponies threw her, broke a vertebra in her neck. When it had healed she 1) got a divorce, 2) quit playing the viola because her neck was too weak to clinch the instrument, 3) began recording music. Soon...