Word: woodwarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worth their oats until they have proved themselves on Eastern tracks. With Ack Ack, winner of seven straight stakes races in California, Whittingham felt that he had the horse to show up the haughty Easterners once and for all. Before he could be entered in the $113,000 Woodward Stakes at New York's Belmont Park last October, however, Ack Ack was sidelined with a case of colic. In his stead, Whittingham went with Cougar II, a horse that Ack Ack had beaten with ease earlier in the season. Cougar II breezed home five lengths ahead of the best...
...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...
...Bloomfield Hills, which reveals--not the time, not the Dow-Jones Industrial Average, but the minute-by-minute total number of cars and trucks produced since the beginning of the year; finally, there is my favorite--a six-story-high flaming spark plug which flashes to drivers along Woodward Avenue the pious message, "Use A.C. Sparks and Watch Bonanza Every Sunday." Hailey calls Detroit "a great cultural center", and he is right...
...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; its preoccupation...