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...Tennessee is divided into three parts. To the ordinary historian, they are eastern, middle and western. But that misses all the savor. As Nathan Longfort identifies them, the subdivisions are the Lost State of Franklin, the area in the eastern part of the state that was once part of North Carolina; Miro, once governed by Spaniards, in the center; and the Purchase, farther west. Similar distinctions apply to families. On his mother's side, Longfort is a Virginia- Tennessean, on his father's, a Carolina-Tennessean. You can tell the difference by whether a person refers to a cabinet...
...Tennessee Country (Knopf; 226 pages; $21) by Peter Taylor, the writer of shrewd, laconic short stories whose previous novel won the Pulitzer Prize, revels in such delineations. He writes of a society grounded in family and memory of the Civil War. Nathan's father was named for Confederate general Braxton Bragg, and many years later he gives his own youngest boy the same name. Trudie, Nathan's mother, was the youngest of the three buoyant, beautiful Tucker sisters, all widowed early, who dominate the hero's childhood and the first half of this funny, rueful novel of morals and manners...
...giddy Banzai (Cheech Marin) and idiotic Ed (Jim Cummings), who says little but is happy to chew voraciously on his own leg. The hero's helpers, who save Simba in the desert and teach him their live-for-today philosophy, Hakuna matata -- Swahili for "What, me worry?" -- are Timon (Nathan Lane), a streetwitty meerkat, and the lumbering wart-hog Pumbaa (Ernie Sabella). They chew beetles...
...takeover ended when President Nathan M.Pusey '28, in an unprecedented action, had 400Boston and suburban police officers break up theprotest...
...pretty bad and I just didn't want to stay on campus," say Pusey, the daughter-in-law of then-University President Nathan M. Pusey...