Border States and their enduring social divides explored
In a review of Wilma Dykeman and Stokely’s Time-Life book The Border States, the piece surveys geography from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, Civil War splits, Jim Crow emergence, and postwar social change. It notes regional leaders, slave history, neutrality shifts, and ongoing racial and economic tensions.
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Tennessee
Kentucky
West Virginia
Virgins
Wilma Dykeman
Atlantic Ocean
Tidewater
Virginia
South
Newport
Tenn
Miss Dykeman
Stokely
Personal Realities THY DAUGHTERS NA KEDNESS review
A lengthily critical look at Myron Kaufmanns second novel Personal Realities THY DAUGHTERS NA KEDNESS. It centers Millicent Gordon a disciplined Jewish young woman and her doctor lover Leslie Hollander plus Rabbi Gordon facing faith doubt. The review commends Kaufmann for lush family life characterization and emotional climaxes while noting some antiquated scruples in Millicent.
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Millicent Gordon
Myron Kaufmann
America
Gordons
Millicent
Leslie Hollander
Kaufmann
Dr. Hollander
Gordon
Miucent
RJC
Whitney Museum Show Traces Franz Kline’s Late Abstract Style
The Whitney Museum of American Art presents a 92-work retrospective of Franz Kline detailing his shift from representational pieces to bold black and white abstracts. Highlights include New Year Wall Night (1960) and early works like Fulton Fish Market (1939) and Palmerton Pa (1943). The show, organized by John Gordon, traces Kline’s pioneering role alongside Pollock and de Kooning and runs at Whitney through Nov 24, then tours Dallas, San Francisco, and Chicago through May.
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Franz Kline
Whitney Museum of American Art
Fulton Fish Market
Kline
Washington Square
Palmerton, Pa
National Academy
Lehigh River
John Gordon
Whitney
Gordon
Jackson Pollock
Willem de Kooning
The
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
San Francisco Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago
Orchestra de Paris at Aycock Auditorium Nov 8
Greensboro Civic Music Assn presents Orchestra de Paris at Aycock Auditorium on November 8 at 8:30 p.m. First Civic concert of the season with guest artists and a Menotti piece The Death of the Bishop of Brindisi. Also features other upcoming opera and concert events.
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Greensboro Civic Music Assn
Orchestra de Paris
Aycock
Friends OF the College
Raleigh
National Endowment For the Arts
Simon Estes
Joy Davidson
Hill Music Hall
Chapel Hill
Metropolitan Opera
Herbert von Karajan
Metropolitan
Josephine Veasey
Fricka
Simone Mangesdorff
Freta
Liselotte Rebmann
Woglinde
Edda Moser
Wellgunde
Anna Reynnolds
Fosshilde
Gerhard Stolze
Loge
Zoltan Kelemen
Alberich
Lili Chookasian
Erda
Thomas Stewart
Wotan
Martti Talvdin
Fasolt
Karl Ridderbusch
Fafner
Rod
Offhand Spark Novel Deceptive The Public Image
Book review of Mariel Spark Knopf novel The Public Image praising concise lean pages. Highlights Annabel Christopher as a strong, unpredictable character with rich film industry observations and sharp social insight.
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Mariel Spark
Knopf
Marie Spark
Mig Jean Prot
Ufe
Mise Spark
Annabel Christopher
Golden Sickle Inn Tale of Treasure in Virginia
Davis Grubb novel set in late 18th century western Virginia follows Dan Cresap heir to a buried treasure. A box with clues, Elisha the dwarf, Barnaby’s brother, a blind Sally, and Barbara converge as danger mounts. Treachery, pursuit, and peril fuel a bloodthirsty quest for wealth.
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Stevenson
Dan Cresap
Golden Sickle Inn
Virginia
Sally
Dan
Barnaby
Jim Crésap
Elisha
Barbara
Horror in The Suburbs EXPENSIVE PEOPLE
Joyce Carol Gates Vanguard reviews a suburban horror tale where a rich Philadelphia family hides a dark secret. Richard Everett, a misused gifted boy, narrates seven years after he murders his parents and spirals into a debased life, delivering a tense critique of elite social pretensions.
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Joyce Carol Gates
Vanguard
Suburbia
Ewoud Everett
Philadelphia
Natashya Romanov
Country Club
Richard
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