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Inside Taegu, Major General Hobart Gay, commander of the ist Cavalry Division, had set up his headquarters, in a horse barn at the city's race track. A calm, kindly, humble soldier who was chief of staff to Tanker Patton in World War II, Gay paced up & down in shabby coveralls, looking less like a general than like a Kansas farmer worrying about crops. Pointing to his situation map with a slim, sheathed French bayonet disguised as a riding crop, General, Gay said: "I hope the enemy is as confused about the situation...
...Collected Stones, Faulkner's blazing skill and lazy improvisations, his rich humor and corny folksiness, his deep sense of tragedy and tasteless gothic excesses are all brought together. About half a dozen stories are as good bits of fiction as have ever been written in the U.S.: Barn Burning, a poignant sketch of a boy's anguished love for his arsonist-father; A Rose for Emily, that hair-raising classic of a lady's decline to necrophilia; Wash, a magnificent portrait of a poor white who, after years of loyalty, rebels against his landlord; Dry September...
Poet Untermeyer hailing the dawn: ". . . Morning, which has never failed, has come again. The city rubs its eyes and wakes from sleep ... In the country, the birds have already roused the world. The barn doors swing wide; the milkers put down their pails; the good earth breathes deeply . . . These next hours are precious; they may be milestones in your life. Face them boldly; meet them with all your resources. They are yours. Take this day. Make it a day to remember-or just to enjoy. Make it a good day. And, to begin with, a good Good Morning...
Since the first outdoor exercises in 1922 it has never rained on Thursday of Commencement Week. It may be locking the barn door that keeps the rain away, for year after year Sanders Theatre and rain tickets have been prepared for the eventually of showers. And all, for 29 years, to no avail...
...average good farmer was still riding the crest of the most prosperous wave in farming history. His farmhouse was fresh-painted and stocked with all the comforts a city dweller could ask, his home freezer overflowed with the best to eat, he owned one or two cars, his barn now held a collection of the best and most valuable farm machinery in the world. His mortgage was paid up or well on the way to amortization, his children could look ahead to four years in a good college...