Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sooner made my escape into the world, I should have grown hard and rough, and been covered with earthly dust, and my heart might have become callous by rude encounters with the multitude. But living in solitude till the fullness of time was come, I still kept the dew of my youth and the freshness of my heart. I used to think I could imagine all passions, all feelings, and states of the heart and mind; but how little did I know! Indeed we are but shadows; we are not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real...
INTRUDER IN THE DUST (247 pp.)-William Faulkner-Random House...
...Faulkner lives, it has become, in the novels of this most powerful of present-day American novelists, a symbolic place suggesting the diseased condition of the South and the entire modern world. In fiercely Gothic melodramas Faulkner has spun out his cobwebby legend of the South. Intruder in the Dust is the latest installment of that legend...
Having suffered nothing more serious than a few bruises and slight sprains thus far this season, the Light Blue is expected to be in top physical shape for the Harvardmen in the first game of the series since 1901. Little will have the "Goal Dust Twins," Gene Rossides and Lou Kusserow, starting at the quarterback and fullback positions with Billy Olson and Jack Nork getting the nod at the halves...
They're called the "Goal Dust" twins and they've been getting more publicity on Morningside Heights than General Ike himself. Quarter-back Gene Rossides and fullback Lou Kusserow are on the verge of breaking every Columbia scoring record in the book...