The reactionary South is like Emily in Faulkner’s story, clinging to a dead love while the world moves on.
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The American South, Trapped in the Past
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Right Wing, Incompetent Hostage Takers?
The GOP holding the debt ceiling hostage could end just as badly as the kidnapping plot in “Ransom of Red Chief.”
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George Knightley as a GOP Moderate
Mr. Knightley chastises Emma because she undermines their class superiority. The GOP establishment is worried about something similar.
Defeating the White Whale of Race Hatred
With a little imagination, “Moby Dick” can be dramatized as a story about race relations.
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