So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nation...s. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Sumter and other counties [in South Carolina] the whites are resorting to intimidation and violence to prevent the colored peop...le from organizing for the elections. The division there is still on the color line. Substantially all the whites are Democrats and all the colored people are Republicans. There is no political principle in dispute between them. The whites have the intelligence, the property, and the courage which make power. The negroes are for the most part ignorant, poor, and timid. My view is that the whites must be divided there before a better state of things will prevail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are... stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation ...so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When Dad can't get the diaper on straight, we laugh at him as though he were trying to walk around in high-heel shoes. Do we ever ...assist him by pointing out that all you have to do is lay out the diaper like a baseball diamond, put the kid's butt on the pitcher's mound, bring home plate up, then fasten the tapes at first and third base?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still ab...le to recognize one. To be able to recognize a freak, you have to have some conception of the whole man, and in the South the general conception of man is still, in the main, theological.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Byron and Elvis Presley look alike, especially in strong-nosed Greek profile. In Glenarvon, a roman a clef about her affair with B...yron, Caroline Lamb says of her heroine's first glimpse of him, "The proud curl of the upper lip expressed haughtiness and bitter contempt." Presley's sneer was so emblematic that he joked about it. In a 1968 television special, he twitched his mouth and murmured, to audience laughter, "I've got something on my lip." The Romantic curling lip is aristocratic disdain: Presley is still called "the King," testimony to the ritual needs of a democratic populace. As revolutionary sexual personae, Byron and Presley had early and late styles: brooding menace, then urbane magnanimity. Their everyday manners were manly and gentle. Presley had a captivating soft-spoken charm. The Byronic hero, says Peter Thorslev, is "invariably courteous toward women." Byron and Presley were world-shapers, conduits of titanic force, yet they were deeply emotional and sentimental in a feminine sense.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out ...the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »