4. Growing up in small town & rural Pennsylvania, Updike seems to have grown up in nearly all-white environment.
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5. First time Updike had any extended contact with blacks and other non-whites was at Harvard.
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@billmon1 Wolfe is good comparison: both temperamental conservatives but Updike pushed himself out of comfort zone more.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@billmon1 Oh yeah, Wolfe is whole other kettle of fish. I'm tempted to write on him as well but don't like the novels (earlier work better)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@billmon1 Interestingly race stuff in Bonfire was too much even for some conservatives like Kenneth Lynn (in Commentary!) & John LukacsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@billmon1 That's a pretty brilliant idea. I'm having flashbacks to the big burly black "boys" in Percy.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@billmon1 I'm trying to remember which Percy novel had the black terrorists -- Love in the Ruins? Lancelot?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@billmon1 Percy's uncle, as you might know, owned the biggest cotton plantation in Mississippi, wrote magnolia nostalgic book.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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