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Born & Bred. Halfway through the writing of his third novel, Sartor is, he had a vision: "I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it. I created a cosmos of my own." He called it Yoknapatawpha County and set it down in the rolling pine hills and cotton-rich valley bottoms of northeastern Mississippi, 80 miles from Memphis, Tenn., named its county seat Jefferson, and peopled its 2,400 sq. mi. with 15,611 residents-"Whites, 6,298; Negroes, 9,313. William Faulkner...
...Constitution leaves the preservation of peace and good order exclusively to the states, said the law professors. But the argument has been without merit since 1879, when the Supreme Court affirmed the Federal Government's power to command obedience to its laws "on every foot of American soil." Prudence may curb this power in Mississippi, noted Kennedy's critics. But it is "disappointing and ironic that the Department of Justice, which has been bold beyond precedent in successfully urging the Supreme Court that the judiciary possesses the broadest powers to enforce the constitutional assurances of equality, should...
...What inspired me most in the area of art and culture in America was jazz music," Stuart Davis once said. It was hot jazz, city jazz, that Davis painted, right up until his death at the age of 69 last week. He was rooted in the American soil, but that soil was concrete. He loathed the country and loved the city, specifically Manhattan, and his abstract but objective works are syncopations of urban life...
Although he had already succeeded to the leadership of India, Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri could not be gin to govern until all that was mortal of Jawaharlal Nehru vanished in the wind, water and soil of India...
...Menon on the left, are likely to give him several months' grace before they start rocking the boat. And after 17 years of Nehru's aristocratic rule, the mass of the Indian people appear to regard Shastri as representing a return to the homey, close-to-the-soil leadership of Gandhi...