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...ruins of the war, Faulkner shows the mean-spirited and hard-driving Snopeses, poor whites who absorbed the cheap commercialism of the carpetbaggers, rising to economic and social power by defeating the Sartoris clan, impotent aristocrats talking about the code of chivalry but unable to bring it to life. Faulkner is especially adept at portraying the creatures of the decayed South: Gowan Stevens, a gentleman of the old school, who learned to drink in a Virginia college but not to overcome his cowardice; Flem Snopes, who would not hesitate to stamp on every living creature to satisfy his greed...
...business. From last year's crew only three were still in office, the president, treasurer, and secretary. It was fortunate that at least these three have been lucky at the polls, for their experience will help the Council to carry on the more fruitful projects that the '47-'48 clan never found time to finish...
...Among prominent Roman Catholic families in the U.S., the Murray clan (four large related Murray families and one McDonnell family) ranks in importance with the Raskobs of New York and the Kennedys of Boston...
...your June 7 issue appears one legend as to the origin of the gypsy clan. Here is another one which was taught the children of Ukrainian descent in Austria-Hungary...
Something Blue. Dzerzhinsky was succeeded by another aristocrat, Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky. Before the revolution Menzhinsky wrote a prophecy: "If Lenin ever reaches power in fact, and not in imagination, he will make a mess of it, the like of one made by Czar Paul I. ... Leninists are a clan of political gypsies, with a strong voice and a love for wielding the knout, imagining that it is their inherent right to serve as coachmen for the laboring masses...