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Great men sometimes have idiot children. Novelist William Faulkner, for instance, produced two volumes of verse. Republished under one cover after being out of print for several decades, they made an arrestingly gruesome twosome. The Marble Faun, written when Faulkner was 21, is a dollop of schoolboyish Shelley-shallying in which Pan and Philomel pipe and warble, and every other word is ah or ye or 'neath or hark. A Green Bough, published when he was 36 and should have known better, seems on the contrary the work of a village Eliot...
...likely to go so far as to back Turkey's desire for par tition of the island. The Turkish press blossomed with headlines when Kosygin promised the visiting Turks that the Kremlin would study ways to improve the living conditions of the hapless Turkish Cypriots. Though a new dollop of Soviet aid may come out of the trip, many Turks found Urguplii's junket to Moscow un settling. The thaw with Russia has had the effect of setting off a growing clam or by leftist politicians, intellectuals and editors that a few years ago would have landed...
...couple of quick punches then virtually trotted backwards around the ring with his guard at his knees, while the sporadically lunging Liston lumbered after him like some great Goliath pleading for the David to stand still long enough so that the giant could pulverize him into a gelatinous dollop of bloody pulp...
...certain enzymes, but no one is sure). So some make a fetish of avoiding chocolate, or uncooked cucumbers, or all cucumbers, or uncooked cabbage, or all cabbage. Then there is the fellow who loudly proclaims, "I can eat anything"-and then slips off to the bathroom for a dollop of soda bicarb...
...first foray at playwriting, Novelist Muriel Resnik sprinkles spice and sentiment with a light hand and adds a fair dollop of wit. The confection is well served by an able cast, the perfection by Sandy Dennis. Liquor may be quicker, as Ogden Nash once argued, but Sandy is dandy...