Word: boon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thank you, TIME, for an enlightening final tribute to Marilyn Monroe. This scholarly talent, imbued with maturity and good taste, was I'm sure a boon to her many friends and fans here in the golden land of sunshine and yellow journalism...
According to one sardonic professor, the sole function of some graduate study is "aging students-rather like cheeses." Still, the trend in general has to be called a boon, not a boondoggle. Americans will just have to get used to a new June in which few collegians "commence." "I have no regrets about not going to work," says Harvard Senior Mark Mullin, 21, a star miler and government major, who will head for Oxford on a Marshall fellowship. "I knew right from the beginning of college that graduate school would be the thing. No, sir, the top jobs later...
...principal character in the story is a Winton Flyer, one of the first automobiles ever seen in Yoknapatawpha County. Its owner is old Lucius ("Boss") Priest, a member of the cadet branch of the county's first families (the Edmondses and McCaslins), but its proud chauffeur is Boon Hogganbeck, the childlike, "tough, faithful, brave and completely unreliable" part Indian who be came famous in The Bear for not being able to hit anything with a shotgun, rifle or weapon of any kind...
...Boon yearns after the car with the innocent lust of man for machine. Somehow enlisting the help of Boss Priest's grandson, young Lucius, Boon "borrows" the car. Twenty-three and a half hours later-a record for the 80 miles of swamp road they heroically cover-Boon and Lucius reach Memphis. Just four days after that, they are back home in Jefferson again. In a series of outlandishly comic episodes, they have somehow lost the car and won it back, found a stolen horse and raced it, spent an innocent night in a Memphis bordello run by young...
...everything that has happened for nearly a hundred years exists in an instantaneous, perpetual, heroic present. Faulkner does not so much invent as he seems to recollect his action and anecdote from an existing, constantly growing body of lore. The Reivers is no exception. The outrageous doings of Boon and Lucius in 1905 are told, in 1962, by Lucius to his grandson. Mostly, Lucius remembers things as the eleven-year-old boy he was when they happened. But on occasion, usually to compare the present unfavorably with the past, he speaks with the knowledge of what has been going...