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...South still has a long way to go to catch up with the rest of the nation (see charts). Says Donald Ratajczak, director of Georgia State University's Economic Forecasting Project: "We are probably experiencing now what the great metropolitan areas of the North did in the 1920s. But the important thing is that we now have enough industrial resources to generate our own growth instead of needing outside stimulus to get going...
...great art was possible-even likely-from such material, not much in fact resulted, at least until the 1920s when William Faulkner began cultivating Yoknapatawpha County, the patch of "rich deep black alluvial soil" that was alike his invention and his home. Suddenly, a whole generation of Southerners saw the ground beneath their feet for what it could be: a foothold on the universe. Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Katherine Anne Porter, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, early Truman Capote, Flannery O'Connor-for close to 40 years, the line of inspired Southern writers seemed inexhaustible. Critics...
...hope of moviemakers who are now trying to turn ballet stars into box office draws at the cinema. In Spain, Dancer Rudolf Nureyev, 38, has stepped into the role of legendary screen lover in Ken Russell's film Valentino. His sole dancing assignment in the film: a 1920s tango. At the same time in New York, fellow Kirov Defector Mikhail Baryshnikov has tried a few lines of his own in The Turning Point, a ballet movie featuring Misha, 28, and Leslie Browne, 19, as a pair of dancer-lovers. For Browne, a last-minute stand-in for ailing Gelsey...
...senses." The grandson of a Norwegian immigrant, he inherited the official optimism of a pioneer, but also the matchless pessimism of an old-fashioned Lutheran. His father had to move the family to Minneapolis when the bank he worked for went broke during the droughts of the late 1920s...
...1920s were so prosperous that Republicans did little more than enjoy the boom and take credit for it. They moved closer to Big Business and pursued the twin policies of high tariffs and low taxes. The loudest dissenting voice was that of farmers, whose prices fell throughout the period. The era was symbolized by the presidency of the flinty Yankee Calvin Coolidge, who did and said as little as possible. The country, he was sure, could run itself?and for a time, at least, he was right...