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...attend if you're deemed part of the "in" crowd, and possibly a get-together with the neighbors down he block. All in all though, things aren't too lively, and residents often become defensive about "big city life." Hazelhurst comparatively seems pretty dull. Yet Hazelhurst, Mississippi, like Faulkner's Yacknapatapha County and the backwoods settings of Eudora Welty's short stories, has a character and quality uniquely its own. And although its citizens and its history give the facade of being just another southern town. Hazelhurst residents still have aspirations, feelings, sensibilities and insights. The ability to bring these...
...WILLIAM FAULKNER Oxford, Miss...
Says Russell Warren Howe, New York correspondent for the London Sunday Times: "If Mr. Faulkner no longer agrees with the more Dixiecratic of his statements I, for one, am very glad, but that is what he said...
...what has gone before toward something perhaps yet to be imagined. They trace a curve of achievement, not a jagged series of breathtaking strokes. One week is hardly long enough to sense and report a pattern that may take decades to emerge. Sixty years ago, for example, William Faulkner was loitering about his home town of Oxford, Miss., being called "Count-no-count" by derisive neighbors for his aloof artiness. During the late '20s and early '30s he produced a series of novels that amounted, one by one, to an epic saga of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County...
When brilliant scholars resign, the faculty, and hence the institutions as a whole, begin to suffer. Says Larry Faulkner, one of the University of Illinois' experts in electrochemistry: "Stability makes the difference between an absolutely first-class state university and a mediocre one. You are able to congregate a great faculty because of a certain atmosphere-and when that gets destroyed, it's hard to put it back together again." Faulkner, 38, was particularly concerned that Illinois would not be able to pay his pension when he retired. Last week he moved into...