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Woodrow Wilson dropped out of North Carolina's Davidson College, later went on to Princeton. Robert Frost quit Dartmouth and William Faulkner the University of Mississippi. Architect Edward D. Stone dropped out of the University of Arkansas. Henry Ford II left Yale; his fellow auto tycoon, George Romney, spent only a year at the University of Utah. Psychiatrist Karl Menninger quit Kansas' Washburn College after two years; California's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike left the University of Santa Clara after his sophomore year. Oil Billionaire J. Paul Getty failed to finish at U.S.C., Berkeley or Oxford...
...REIVERS (305 pp.}-William Faulkner-Random House...
...read down the list of writers that attended the President's party at the White House and noticed that at the bottom it said: Novelist William Faulkner declined. O God, America still has an artist...
...only American prizewinner to turn down President Kennedy's invitation to the recent White House dinner for Nobel laureates finally explained why. "It's 100 miles away," drawled Novelist William Faulkner, 64, in Charlottesville, Va., where he lectures part-time at the University of Virginia. "That's a long way to go just...
...group of Donne-and-Yeats-citing and always identifiable poets...." He has accused our poets of imitation, and of course he's absolutely right. One only wonders why he concluded his list at Donne and Yeats. In the last year alone we have published imitations of Shaw, Shakespeare, Pope, Faulkner, Rimbaud, Keats, D. H. Lawrence Lorca, , William Carls Williams, Goldsmith, Katherine Mansfield, Hemingway, Lowell, Wilde, and Stevens, to mention only a few. Many of these authors appear in a single work; a few of them appear in almost every work. But how, may I ask, is this to be distinguished...