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re: An SEC legend passed away today (with new Pat Dye quotes)
Posted on 2/19/16 at 3:00 pm to ErnestTBassmaster
Posted on 2/19/16 at 3:00 pm to ErnestTBassmaster
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She could not attend law school after only one year of undergraduate school, I don't think.
Back then you started doing work in the law school during undergraduate school.
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In her junior year, Lee was accepted into the university's law school, which allowed students to work on law degrees while still undergraduates. The demands of her law studies forced her to leave her post as Rammer Jammer editor. After her first year in the program, Lee began expressing to her family that writing—not the law—was her true calling. She went to Oxford University in England that summer as an exchange student. Returning to her law studies that fall, Lee dropped out after the first semester. She soon moved north to follow her dreams to become a writer.
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Posted on 2/19/16 at 3:01 pm to LC412000
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this the lady who caught HIV from Capote? wait, no this is the chick that took credit for a bird book that was actually written by Truman. She did not attend UA but was a big fan? Surprising
You must have one sad life
Posted on 2/19/16 at 3:07 pm to rockiee
I think we all have only one life, unless you are like George and do some cross dressing on the side
Posted on 2/19/16 at 3:17 pm to LC412000
Pathetic.
Posted on 2/19/16 at 3:19 pm to LC412000
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unless you are like George and do some cross dressing on the side
Um, sick, burn?
Posted on 2/19/16 at 3:19 pm to SummerOfGeorge
But what did Truman have to say???
Posted on 2/19/16 at 3:20 pm to cajunbama
cajunbama -- the oxymoron has made an appearance and it is not even a thread about LSU...NOW that is surprising!
Posted on 2/19/16 at 3:34 pm to rootisback
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But what did Truman have to say???
I am more interested in what Debra Barone had to say about the passing
Posted on 2/19/16 at 3:50 pm to scrooster
Scrooster said:
This is a really ignorant statement. She could have lived anywhere. She chose to live in Monroeville, AL. You cannot get more Southern than Monroeville, AL. Not only is it Southern. It is OLD Southern.
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She actually didn't like the South.
This is a really ignorant statement. She could have lived anywhere. She chose to live in Monroeville, AL. You cannot get more Southern than Monroeville, AL. Not only is it Southern. It is OLD Southern.
This post was edited on 2/19/16 at 3:51 pm
Posted on 2/19/16 at 3:56 pm to ErnestTBassmaster
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This doesn't sound right. She could not attend law school after only one year of undergraduate school, I don't think.
I have no idea about the particular facts in this case, but things were a wee bit different back then in terms of earning a professional degree. While the liberal arts model was certainly in effect, the models for certain educational paths (like lawyer, doctor, Louisiana governor) tended to de-emphasize many aspects of modern schooling. Hell, some of the great lawyers of that and prior ages never even graduated from law school. Clarence Darrow is a legendary example. Lincoln is another.
Posted on 2/19/16 at 4:25 pm to randomways
Harper Lee 
One of the best novels ever written but more importantly, for me anyway, was they was she represented Alabama. We have always said there are 2 Alabama's and only one ever gets talked about publicly. Well, she represented the other Alabama that most of us knew and have loved our whole life. The slow pace of life, warm breezes and good, down home people that are actually very well- spoken. That won't get as many readers in the NYT as a story about a lynching but to most of us Alabamians, what she described was OUR way of life, not the crap always shown about Alabama that was designed by Madison Avenue to both discourage commerce and trade form coming south but also to make sure it went to places such as NYC, Boston, Philly. This media propaganda from the Big Apple still exists to this day BTW.
Also, her and Capote were the first mainstream writers to bring a darker edge into writing. This brought a whole new audience to literature and also a whole new genre of movies to Hollywood.
Thanks for your contributions. You will be missed.
One of the best novels ever written but more importantly, for me anyway, was they was she represented Alabama. We have always said there are 2 Alabama's and only one ever gets talked about publicly. Well, she represented the other Alabama that most of us knew and have loved our whole life. The slow pace of life, warm breezes and good, down home people that are actually very well- spoken. That won't get as many readers in the NYT as a story about a lynching but to most of us Alabamians, what she described was OUR way of life, not the crap always shown about Alabama that was designed by Madison Avenue to both discourage commerce and trade form coming south but also to make sure it went to places such as NYC, Boston, Philly. This media propaganda from the Big Apple still exists to this day BTW.
Also, her and Capote were the first mainstream writers to bring a darker edge into writing. This brought a whole new audience to literature and also a whole new genre of movies to Hollywood.
Thanks for your contributions. You will be missed.
Posted on 2/19/16 at 4:38 pm to Roses of Crimson
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Also, her and Capote were the first mainstream writers to bring a darker edge into writing.
Indeed. I'd add Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty to that seminal list as well. That whole generation revitalized Southern literature. Faulkner would actually be the example of this, but a lot of his methodology overshadowed this aspect.
Posted on 2/19/16 at 4:49 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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SEC legend
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Posted on 2/19/16 at 5:19 pm to ErnestTBassmaster
Back then you could. Not sure when it changed, but my dad went to law school in the 1960's and got his degree and then got his undergrad degree after that.
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