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...Final Days, Woodward & Bernstein...
...those who've already been through the University's permanent collections at the Fogg and the Busch-Reisinger. Neither musuem has gotten any new exhibits together yet, this fall. Instead, you can look at pictures of Pusey Library in Gund Hall's "Books and Buildings" exhibit puzzle out Eudoxia Woodward's geometric flowers and name in the basement of 17 Quincy Street, or if really desperate, count the days till Hanukkah vacation on the Jewish calendars up Widener's stairs...
...every generation since Journalist Henry Grady publicized the term after Reconstruction. In 1880 Poet Sidney Lanier envisioned an agrarian Utopia: "The New South means small farming ... meat and bread for which there are no notes in bank ... and grass at nothing a ton." In 1951 Historian C. Vann Woodward decided that the "New South is not a place name as is New England, nor does it precisely designate a period, as does the Confederacy. It vaguely sets apart those whose faith lies in the future from those whose heart is with the past." Arkansas Democratic Senator Dale Bumpers is even...
Only in the intellectual fields of history and fiction has the South been brilliantly represented. But most of the luminaries left the South-Robert Penn Warren, Truman Capote, Lillian Hellman, William Styron went to the North to write. Historians C. Vann Woodward, Julian Boyd and David Donald went to the North to teach. Explains one Deep South professor who moved away ten years ago: "Southern universities were not exactly bastions of freedom. Intellectuals could be severely hassled, and professors who held divergent views had to be either gutsy or masochistic to stay. It's difficult to seek or create...
...Passages, Sheehy (1) 2-The Final Days, Woodward &Bernstein (2) 3-Your Erroneous Zones, Dyer (7) 4-World of Our Fathers,Howe (4) 5-Scoundrel Time, Hellman (6) 6-A Year of Beauty and Health, Beverly & Vidal Sassoon (5) 7-A Man Called Intrepid,Stevenson (3) 8-Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, Kearns (8) 9-Black Sun, Wolff 10-Loretta Lynn, Lynn & Vecsey...