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...ballet company (Virginia Sampler in 1947 for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo), she also worked for Broadway and Hollywood, bringing back to the dance a concept of "total theater," the combined use of singing, dancing and acting in such ballets as As I Lay Dying, based on William Faulkner's novel, and A Streetcar Named Desire, a scorching version of Tennessee Williams' play...
This is the 20th anniversary not only of Meredith, but of the death of William Faulkner. He died less than three months before the crisis; he lies now under a towering oak in the town cemetery up the way. The events of that September would likely have broken his heart, as they did the hearts of many Mississippians. "The white people have already lost their heads," he said of those years. "It depends on whether the Negroes can keep theirs." Between then and now there was to be more suffering...
...resolutely taking this approach. Ever since 1937, all of St. John's students (683 this fall on both campuses) have been required to read and discuss a list of 130 great books, drawn heavily from the classics and philosophy but also from the ranks of modern novelists like Faulkner and Conrad. The students must take four years of math, three of a laboratory science, two of music and two years each of Greek and French. That is just about it. This modern liberal arts version of the trivium and quadrivium includes no such novelties as psychology (except what...
Here, prices are substantially lower than those for 19th century works, making them ideal entry points for the new collector, but not for jittery investors. Consider these risks: Robert Frost brings 25% less than he did a decade ago, Hemingway is barely holding, and Faulkner is sluggish. On the other hand, Wallace Stevens' rare first volume, Harmonium, $2 when published in 1923, can bring $800. The far more recent works of John Updike, John Cheever and Saul Bellow have done nearly as well. Some sharp collectors bought John Gardner's first novel, The Resurrection (1972), for cut-rate...
...HARD to believe that the South of William Faulkner. Gone With the Wind and the Ku Klux Klan could produce Rita Mac Brown. In her latest novel. Southern Discomfort--which is filled with her signature wit and warmth--Brown follows several of Motgomery. Alabama's more interesting citizens as they wander through a sexual and social labyrinth as only a candid, radical feminist...