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A NYT front-page piece describes the efforts being made on behalf of Malcolm Shabazz by New York power brokers and family friends David Dinkins and Percy Sutton, revealing that the two men, in attempting to favorably work out details of Shabazz's upcoming juvenile sentence, have been "sharing the back seat of a chauffeured black sedan,.
And that appears to be the underlying purpose of English Accents and Dialects, a fitting epigraph to which might be added Lady Percy's tribute to her husband killed on the battlefield:
The patronymics of powerful tribes such as Howard, Clarence, Cecil, Percy, Douglas, Bruce, Tudor , and Stuart are all seen as masculine.
Years later, reading Walker Percy's superb essays on race and civil rights, I had it spelled out for me: The South, at least the white South before integration, was one big kinship lodge.
Kruger and Dunning's finding also calls to mind the quotation from Soren Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death that serves as the epigraph to Walker Percy's novel The Moviegoer : "[T]he specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair."