Word: virginius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rigid for Peace. It is this concern about getting too deeply involved that is most often expressed in editorials. "There must be a better way to carry on this war and bring it to an honorable conclusion," said Virginius Dabney's Richmond Times-Dispatch. "As things are going now, it will never end and the U.S. will be bled white. It has become obvious that little progress is being made, despite the presence of 500,000 U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam." The same fear has been expressed by the Miami Herald. "Politically, militarily and most important, honorably," said...
Many of the old fears are still present, if often more thoughtfully expressed; Author-Editor Virginius Dabney worries about "racial amalgamation," and carefully quotes Arnold Toynbee as his authority that it is bound to happen. Southern white liberals are still often attacked as traitors, and more fiercely denounced by segregationists than even Negro civil rights leaders; waitresses have been known to serve Negroes but not their white companions...