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...drunk. Widow Jones cavorts without pulling down her window shades. It would all be everyday grist for Peyton Place but, blaring out of radios and jukeboxes, this titillating recital is selling 3,000,000 records. It is Harper Valley P.T.A., a thumping, country-flavored song about a smalltown widow. Her high skirts and low life are criticized by the P.T.A. at her teen-age daughter's school. She storms into the P.T.A. meeting and graphically exposes the membership as a bunch of hypocrites...
...Deep South itself, Mississippi--with its title of "Poorest State In The Nation" and its legendary smalltown sheriffs--may be more glamorous than Alabama; but Mississippi's notoriety has made it the target of many more civil rights projects than have ever come to Alabama. It's possible to make a good case for Southwest Georgia as the most segregated area in the country, but Georgia also contains semi-progressive Atlanta and black legislators like Julian Bond. South Carolina has Storm Thurmond, Louisiana has Leander Perez, and Arkansas and Tennessee have their residual rednecks. But for over-all misery--that...
...malpractice suit as his counterpart in the big city? Traditionally, the answer has been no, but with the new ease of communication, the so-called "locality" rule is changing. Massachusetts is the latest state to abandon the old standard. The ruling came in the case of a smalltown anesthesiologist accused of having given an excessive dose of a painkiller to a pregnant woman, thereby causing partial paralysis of her left leg. While noting that the lack of medical resources in a small town could be taken into account, the state's Supreme Judicial Court said: "One holding himself...
Love-Hate. For Disney, nostalgia was an article of faith in the moral superiority of the good old days. Throughout his career, he projected "images of longing"-from the barnyard and smalltown settings for many of Mickey Mouse's antics to the entrance of Disneyland, which compels visitors to pass through a turn-of-the-century Midwestern Main Street, "an idealized vision of Disney's boyhood environment...
Lyrical is not the final word for the desperate tribal rites that come to consume the lives of the couples. At the novel's outset they are merely a gang of friends who, like so many smalltown sets, see rather too much of one another. They gather for endless whisky-driven parties by night, spend their weekends playing games. They gossip in the faintly malicious, secretly thrilled saxophone tones of bourgeois life...