Word: faulknerisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sound and the Fury. Faulkner's novel turned into a sort of magnolia-strewn Jane Eyre; excellent acting by Joanne Woodward Yul Brynner and Margaret Leighton...
Certainly he gives indications he will provide. Set in a place somewhere in Louisiana that is not altogether unlike a Williams, a Faulkner, a Welty locale, Kopit's play concerns the visit of an old school friend to the home of a robust insurance man, his supremely sensitive wife, and their brattish children. The visitor, Emmanuel Moon, a graciously sinister spectre, says he has come to collect on an adolescent promise made by George "Chopper" Feering, a raging "bull" who raised living standards in the country by convincing dying old men to buy insurance instead of medical care...
...Sound and the Fury. Joanne Woodward, Yul Brynner, Margaret Leighton in Hollywood's skillful and carefully laundered treatment of a William Faulkner novel...
Harvard Freshman Philip Alston Stone, 18, wrote this fictional portrait of a Southern demagogue last year when he was still in prep school (Hotchkiss). No male Sagan, Novelist Stone is a chip off the writing desk occupied by William Faulkner, his famed fellow townsman in Oxford, Miss. In his rhetoric, country humor and nightmare vision of social change and violence. Novelist Stone resembles Faulkner, much as a shrunken head resembles a life-sized...
...Sound and the Fury. Joanne Woodward, Yul Brynner, Margaret Leighton in Hollywood's skillful, if carefully laundered treatment of a William Faulkner novel...