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Southerner and New
The young William Faulkner in New Orleans in the 1920's impressed the novelist Hamilton Basso as obviously conscious of being a Southerner, and there is no evidence that since then he has ever considered himself any less so.
The producer Norman Lloyd, a friend and actor in The Southerner, took over the direction of the play, which was broadcast in the series program Hollywood Television Theater on WNET, Channel 13, New York on February 3, 1973.
Cybill is a rather eccentric feminist who practices New Age philosophy, as well as a native Southerner from Memphis, Tennessee.
Clinton, a Southerner with experience governing a more conservative state, positioned himself as a centrist New Democrat.
The Southern Crescent inaugurated service in 1970 by combining two trains that had run separately between New York and New Orleans for decades: the Southerner, which ran over the Southern Railway only, between New Orleans and Atlanta via Birmingham ; and the original Crescent, which had previously used Atlanta and West Point Railroad, Western Railway of Alabama and Louisville and Nashville Railroad trackage between New Orleans and Atlanta via Mobile.
Despite being a lifelong New Yorker ( and an Actors Studio member of long standing ), James has been cast as a Southerner in many of his roles, like his appearances in the James Bond films, and also powerful Houston lawyer Striker Bellman in the daytime soap opera Texas from 1981 – 82.
In 1976, following the publication success of his western The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales, The New York Times revealed Forrest Carter to be Southerner Asa Earl Carter.
* Southerner ( train ), a New Zealand express passenger train

Southerner and I
Like every Southerner I can't escape the romantic tradition of brave defeats, forlorn lost causes.
In an old joke, a Southerner alleges, " I was twenty-one years old before I learned that ' damn ' and ' Yankee ' were separate words.
Harris was born in Linton, Indiana but grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, and identified himself as a Southerner ( his hallmark song was " That's What I Like About the South ").
However, almost no one found the kiss offensive " except from a single mildly negative letter from one white Southerner who wrote: " I am totally opposed to the mixing of the races.
* Am I a Southerner?
A Southerner soon as a Northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable down by the Oconee I live, A Yankee bound my own way ready for trade, my joints the limberest joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth, A Kentuckian walking the vale of the Elkhorn in my deer-skin leggings, a Louisianan or Georgian ...

Southerner and for
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
Scallawag had a special meaning after the Civil War as an epithet for a white Southerner who willingly accepted the reforms by the Republicans.
In 1976, Thurmond appeared in a campaign commercial for incumbent U. S. President Gerald Ford in his race against Thurmond's fellow Southerner, former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter.
The focus is on Southerner Regina Hubbard Giddens, who struggles for wealth and freedom within the confines of an early 20th century society where a father considered only sons as legal heirs.
Two years later, he made The Southerner, a film about Texas sharecroppers that is often regarded as his best American film and one for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Directing.
* National Board of Review, Top Ten Film and Best Director, for The Southerner, 1945
* Best Film, Venice Festival, for The Southerner, 1946
The outgoing President, Millard Fillmore of the Whig Party, offered to nominate Benjamin, a Southerner, to fill a Supreme Court vacancy after the Senate Democrats had defeated Fillmore's other nominees for the post.
As described by noted writer Theodore White, Johnson had, for a Southerner, a liberal early record.
Instead, Sumner helped organize the Free Soil Party, which opposed both the Democrats and the Whigs, who had nominated Zachary Taylor, a slave-owning Southerner, for President.
The hero is a young Southerner who, having a genius for politics, rises above the masses and falls in love with a higher class girl.
Moses Frank, a Southerner, suggested that Frank come to work for the National Pencil Company, a manufacturing plant he had just invested in.
In 1997 Tim was brought in by Casting Director April Webster, and was chosen by Jerry Bruckheimer to play Benny Ray Riddle, sniper and master armourer in a team of spec ops experts, in the Rysher TV series ' Soldier of Fortune, Inc .' An ex-Marine, drummed out of the Corps for hitting a UN Task Force Officer, Tim's portrayal of the no nonsense, hard nosed, Southerner was an immediate success.
When he showed a knack for snappy one-liners, he joined the Benny ensemble portraying himself, but scripted as a hip-talking, hard-drinking, brash Southerner, whose good nature often overcame his ego.
Her father was the district manager for Knit Underwear, her mother was a Southerner from Tennessee.
A proud Southerner, he admired his British roots and assumed that the United Kingdom was fighting a war for democracy.
Prior to his literary career as " Forrest ", Carter was politically active for years in Alabama as an opponent of the civil rights movement: he worked as a speechwriter for segregationist Governor George Wallace of Alabama ; founded the North Alabama Citizens Council ( NACC ) and an independent Ku Klux Klan group ; and started the pro-segregation monthly titled The Southerner.
On the day the Convention had agreed to appoint the committee, Southerner Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, of South Carolina, had warned of dire consequences should the committee fail to include protections for slavery in the Southern states, or allow for taxing of Southern agricultural exports.
The UPC had failed even to capitalise on its self created dilemma ( appearing to be a Northern party ) by not appointing a popular Northern politician to lead the party-instead they opted for Obote's widow ( Miria ), a Southerner.

Southerner and with
In a tense, closed-door session with Judge Smith, Rayburn attempted to work out a compromise: to add three new members to the Rules Committee ( two Democrats, including one Southerner, and one Republican ).
Wilson was the first Southerner in the White House since 1869 and worked closely with Southern leaders.
Choosing fellow Southerner Gore went against the popular strategy of balancing a Southern candidate with a Northern partner.
In response, Nixon nominated G. Harrold Carswell, a Southerner with a history of supporting segregation and opposing women's rights.
Her reports make use of convoluted puns in the execution chamber, and interviews with stereotypical stock characters in American culture ( including Steve Coogan as dimwitted Southerner Alvin Holler ).
At the height of popularity, the character was often mentioned or parodied on other programs, especially that of Jack Benny, with fellow Southerner Phil Harris usually playing the part ( and Delmar himself guesting in the role on February 12, 1950, months after Allen's show had left the airwaves ).
As “ an expatriate Southerner, fresh from the pitched battles of the Civil Rights struggle in Memphis, Tennessee ,” Callicott believed that “ the environment was under wholesale assault from every direction with no surcease in sight ” and that “ Civil Rights was a cause already won in the republic of ideas and in the courts ( if not on Main Street in Memphis ).” He “ was a concerned citizen, but was also, more particularly, a challenged philosopher .” So Callicott asked “ how, as a philosopher, could contribute to a rethinking of human nature and a reconstruction of human values to help bring them into line with the relatively new ideas about the nature of the environment emerging from ecology and the new physics .”
Since the short Wash was not a fighter, Crane tried out several scrappier sidekicks until May 6, 1929, when he introduced Captain Easy, a tough, taciturn Southerner with a mysterious past.
After the promotion of Chae Je-gong in 1788, Dasan took top place in the daegwa ( higher civil service exam ) in 1789 and was offered a position in the Office of Royal Decrees, together with 5 other members of the Southerner faction.

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