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Others on the Board of Overseers who will become Senior Associates are William G. Saltonstall '28, Francis Boyer '16, and Edwin A. Locke, all of whom will join Lowell House. James M. Faulkner '20 will become associated with Eliot House...
...that this external discipline has been paid for with the loss of inner form and tension. Diffuse, repetitious, overly detailed, Terrace suffers badly from the fallacy that to fill space is to conquer time. When Appointment in Samarra appeared almost a quarter-century ago, it was apparent that Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald had a challenger. From the Terrace is probably the best novel O'Hara has written since Samarra; but he is still the challenger...
...five, NBC four. ¶ Commanding a tempest to rage in a tank at Hollywood's Television City, Director John Frankenheimer filmed a ferocious facsimile of the flooding Mississippi River for this week's TV version (Playhouse 90) of William Faulkner's novelette Old Man. The story hurls a convict (Sterling Hayden) into the 1927 flood and tells of his heroic struggle to save a pregnant woman (Geraldine Page) before society thrusts him back in the pen with no thanks and ten years extra. Director Frankenheimer prodded Convict Hayden through three days' filming without sleep, drove...
Geraldine Page and Sterling Hayden in a dramatic version of Faulkner's Old Man adapted for TV by another pretty fair country writer, Horton (The Trip to Bountiful) Foote...
...Republic contracted the most visible case of split personality. Critic Conrad Brenner extolled the book for four pages, ended: "Vladimir Nabokov is an artist of the first rank, a writer in the great tradition . . . Lolita is probably the best fiction to come out of this country . . . since Faulkner's burst in the '30s. [Nabokov] may be the most important writer now going in this country." But later, the New Republic used a lead editorial to call Lolita an "obscene chronicle of murder and a child's destruction," somberly explained "what obliges us to differ with...