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Gusto is not a common characteristic of present-day writers. Their most notable common trait is resignation-a resignation that sometimes dresses itself up in a splendid refusal to surrender, a defiant rejection of the unconditional terms that life demands. Hemingway, Faulkner, Graham Greene, J. P. Marquand, Elizabeth Bowen, Evelyn Waugh-they all record, in their various manners, the hopeless valor, the quiet desperation of a rearguard action, a doomed though indomitable next-to-last stand...
...official hostess (he is a widower), the new ambassador brought along his 20-year-old daughter Tomiko, a shy, pretty girl who speaks little English, prefers Western dress. Tomiko is due for some surprises: she prepared herself for her trip to the U.S. by plowing determinedly through works of Faulkner, Dos Passos, Hemingway and Sinclair Lewis...
Perspectives' "pilot" issue is a handsome, 236-page slick-paper job with a full-color abstract design on the cover. Inside are reprints of articles by Selden Rodman, Meyer Schapiro, Thornton Wilder and others, poetry by Archibald MacLeish and Robert Lowell, and fiction by William Faulkner. The pilot issue, foundation officials explained, is not an exact standard by which to judge Perspectives; only about half the pilot articles will be in the first issue. Nevertheless, the pilot issue gave the whole project-unless substantially changed-the flavor of a "little magazine's" fragile view of American culture, blown...
...Crooked Way is Mississippi-born Elizabeth Spencer's second novel, and it is almost a compendium of all the fashionable faults likely to be found in a young highbrow novelist. Her characters seem scooped from Faulkner rather than observed from life. Her technique of letting several characters tell the story in rotation, also reminiscent of Faulkner, is much too complex for her simple materials. And a throbby, portentous style suggests that, so far, she is more concerned with displaying her sensibility than releasing her story...
Boston University is the only one of the three local schools planning any extended expansion. B.U. has purchased land adjoining the present campus and will build within three years, Faulkner said. The new buildings will allow the first year class to increase from 72 students...