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Critics are feared for the damage they can do to reputations, but they are probably at legist as dangerous when they turn kingmaker. After the deaths of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, several of them rushed around trying to fit on someone a dubious glass slipper marked "Greatest Living American Novelist." As a result, some would-be Cinderellas look pinched before their time...
What Davis is overwriting, it turns out, is a marvelous sort of flapdoodle that does not fit into any category that book-jacket haikuists can think of. The tall stories that Faulkner wrote when his mood was bourbon-light are in the same family; The Reivers bears a resemblance to Fools' Parade. Dark violence and piebald absurdity share an uncertain border, and now and then some mythmaker on his day off, like Grubb, manages to write within this uncertainty. A fine book, written for the hell of it, which is a splendid reason...
...Catholics and the centuries-old heritage of hatred, could possibly say that about Northern Ireland? The answer was the Union Party leader and the brand-new Prime Minister, Major James Chichester-Clark, 46, who had won a Unionist Party caucus by one vote from a hard-lining Unionist, Brian Faulkner. Chichester-Clark last month resigned from the Cabinet of the previous Prime Minister, Terence O'Neill, thus helping to force O'Neill's resignation in the face of charges he was soft on Catholicism...
...harder to see how this the man who wrote Lie Down in Darkness, The Long March, Set This House On Fire, and The Confessions of Nat Turner, how this man is, at 44, an heir to William Faulkner and all that Faulkner was heir to. The Southernness is right: "A homogenization has taken place. I'm not sure Faulkner's 'South' still exists, it exists only as a memory. But unless I still smelled the country I know so well, I wouldn't have chosen to write..." What doesn't show is the artist's sensitivity...
...More than 1,000 British soldiers moved into position throughout Ulster to protect reservoirs, telephone exchanges and power stations. Moderate Prime Minister Captain Terence O'Neill's days in office seemed numbered as extremism mounted. "We are on the brink of bloodshed," former Deputy Prime Minister Brian Faulkner warned. "Perhaps this is our last chance to halt on the brink, before anyone is killed...