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While Ulster seethed, two governments fell in quick succession under persistent attack from such Protestant extremists as the Rev. Ian Paisley and former Home Minister William Craig. Brian Faulkner, Northern Ireland's third Premier in 23 months, took office last March in a period of rising unrest. As a gesture of conciliation, Faulkner advocated the establishment of three new parliamentary committees, two of which would be chaired by opposition members. But Protestant and Catholic alike were lukewarm to the plan. As friction increased early this summer, Catholic opposition leaders boycotted the Ulster Parliament and threatened to set up their...
...travel to Pennsylvania and even West Virginia to play." After working in Detroit, Kane served as our Miami correspondent for a year, then moved to the Atlanta bureau. This week's assignment, which he describes as an "attempt to shed light on the difference between William Faulkner and Willie Morris," was thus a natural for him. About the only thing Kane felt unprepared for was interviewing Governor Carter at 6:30 a.m., the time Carter was least distracted by official business...
Throughout the South, there are signs that the region is abandoning the fateful uniqueness that has retarded its development and estranged its people. William Faulkner's South?heavy with ghostly Spanish moss, penumbral myths and morbid attachment to the past?is giving way to a South that has discovered it does not need fable to shore up its pride or the past to cloud its future. Moreover, a generation after the process was largely completed in the rest of the U.S., the South is caught up in an economic expansion that is reshaping its social order. The South has become...
...Patrolmen came in and "turned and fired into the park area-simultaneously as they fired into the dormitory," Having made their point, they picked up their cartridge shells and filed a report, as fictional as Faulkner, that spoke of snipers on the roof tops and an uppity nigger beneath every bush. From time to time during the attack, Jackson students had waved white flags as they came out of cover to collect the dead and mutilated...
...Like Faulkner, Morris, the 36-year-old former editor of Harper's magazine, is Mississippi grown. Unlike Faulkner, who kept close to the home that he turned into a national myth, Morris has spent most of his adult life outside the state. In Texas as an undergraduate and muckraker for the Texas Observer; in England as a Rhodes scholar; and in New York as a hard-drinking, uncompromising and sometimes brilliant editor. Yet, says Morris, "the longer I live in Manhattan, the more Southern I seem to become...