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Always we must have something to sentimentalize. Some targets come and go (Heathen Chinese, Starving Armenians, Kennedys); others we have always with us, such as Indians, Negroes and the American small town. This last is having copious inky tears shed all over it, now that it is (allegedly) Disappearing. In the past year, at least six of our leading magazines have gone in for laments for the good old days of church suppers, husking bees and simple virtues of which the small town was supposedly the mainstay.

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BACK TO PODUNK!

Always we must have something to sentimentalize. Some targets come and go (Heathen Chinese, Starving Armenians, Kennedys); others we have always with us, such as Indians, Negroes and the American small town. This last is having copious inky tears shed all over it, now that it is (allegedly) Disappearing. In the past year, at least six of our leading magazines have gone in for laments for the good old days of church suppers, husking bees and simple virtues of which the small town was supposedly the mainstay.