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...comedy is never frivolous, though. Faulkner, in accepting his Nobel Prize, stated, "I decline to accept the end of man. I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail." Beckett is not so sure. But at least his characters do their damndest to endure...
While we are knocking the South with every issue by pouring salt in old wounds, let's add a little pepper to the salad by mentioning that in recent years the South was fertile enough to produce a good crop of writers: Wolfe, Faulkner, Harper Lee and Margaret Mitchell, plus a Barkley, Dean Rusk, Richard Russell, Byrd, Hodges, Helen Keller, Billy Graham and Dinah Shore, plus the core of the space program for good measure...
...confessed that he rejected the play without having seen it. Safe & Solid. Otherwise, the awards were what many a commentator termed "safe and solid"-and about as controversial as a seed catalogue. Posthumous prizes went to Physician-Poet William Carlos Williams for Pictures from Brueghel and to Novelist William Faulkner for The Reivers (his second Pulitzer). Other second-time winners: Composer Samuel Barber for Piano Concerto No. 1, and New York Timesman Anthony Lewis, winner of the $1,000 national reporting prize for his Supreme Court coverage. The rest of the winners: History: Constance McLaughlin Green's Washington, Village...
...elder statesman of American letters, a deeply reflective, painfully slow writer who is best known for his massive, five-volume Makers and Finders; A History of the Writer in America, 1800-1915, which took him 20 years to write and spans American literature from Washington Irving to William Faulkner; of cancer; in Bridgewater, Conn. As a critic of his culture, Brooks argued that much of American writing was second rate, that U.S. materialism thwarted genius, and that the true fulfillment of America is yet to come. That it would come, he was certain. The American belief, wrote Brooks, "is that...
Letters: Fiction-William Faulkner The Reivers; non-Fiction-Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August; Poetry-William Carlos Williams, "Pictures from Brueghel"; Biography-Leon Edel, Henry James: Vol. II, The Conquest of London; Vol. III, The Middle Years...