When William Styron鈥檚 sweeping novel 鈥淭he Confessions of Nat Turner,鈥� was published in 1967, it caused two, divergent developments.It won for Styron the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but it also became the source of serious concerns among the nation鈥檚 black intellectuals.Nat Turner ...
<em>鈥淓ye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth鈥�</em><em>Exodus 21:24</em>I鈥檝e formed my own religion.I鈥檝e based it solely on one passage in the Bible 鈥� 鈥淓ye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.鈥滻 was planning to take my religion to ...
Ted Nugent talks too much.I say let him keep talking.The aging (he鈥檚 two months younger than me) rock 鈥榥 rolling, gun-loving, draft-dodging 鈥淢otor City Madman,鈥� is never short on words, nor long on intelligent ones.Ask him a question, and a verbal low blow falls out.He鈥檚 recently ...
William Styron was one of the most acclaimed writers of the 20th Century.His fact-based novel 鈥淭he Confessions of Nat Turner鈥� about a failed slave uprising, ignited controversy in 1967. But it would also earn the highest form of praise -- a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Styron鈥檚 next novel, ...
Pitchers and catchers reported last week.To be more precise, the Pittsburgh Pirates are preparing to defend their newfound empire against all enemies, foreign (the Cincinnati Reds) and domestic (themselves).With the Pirates heading to Bradenton (position players are scheduled to report today), ...
It certainly must have raised lots of eyebrows in Uniontown on Feb. 18, 1952, when the readers of the Evening Standard learned that 鈥淯niontown (is) Going To (the) Dogs.鈥漈hat was according to Uniontown鈥檚 Police Chief Alfred W. Davis, who was fed up with all of the stray dogs that had begun ...