I had already met Banks, briefly, at a press conference that the Madison Square Garden corporation gave for the two incipient Heroes, and he seemed the antithesis of the Kentucky bard — a grave, quiet young Deep Southerner.
"[Amasa] was a Deep South Southerner," Shields told The Wall Street Journal.
Lightman, a soft-spoken, deep-thinking Southerner who summers on a quiet island near Harpswell, said he now spends about a third of his time running the dorm for rural women he built in Cambodia.
Why is history and memory sometimes a deep family matter, to Southerners?
Republicans aimed for the deepest fears of white southerners by tying Childers to Obama's nutty former preacher, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
But this time he succumbed to the deep rage of the white Southerners, whose fury at the 'impudence of those niggers' was so monumental.
Southerners claim a deep allegiance to the good old United States of America but ironically celebrate their ancestors' efforts to dissolve the very union of states whose flag they now so proudly fly.
Moonlight and magnolias, a Southerner says in "Deep Are the Roots," are "our oldest clichés".
"That was tough; he was a 6-foot-5 Southerner with a deep accent sitting behind his desk," said Mr. Sealey, who is about 5 feet 8. "He told me, 'Weeeell, son, there's not much we can do for you".' Mr. Sealey was still not eligible for federal loans or grants.
Williams' story incorporates the history of the Mississippi Delta; so much of it is expressed in his plays through his insight, skill, and lyricism as a writer, as well as his deep feelings about the south and southerners.
