Word: faulkners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...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...
...sons. Pasternak prefers to write standing up in his virtually bookless den. There he was touched recently to receive the first copy he had seen of the U.S. edition of Doctor Zhivago. Revealing the underlying pathos of his isolation, he asked his visitor eagerly, "Do you think Hemingway and Faulkner will read...
Only two of the winners in the recent Football Forecast contest guessed the exact score of the Harvard-Dartmouth game. Carl D. Yager '62 and William R. Faulkner, Jr. '61 have won the prizes offered by the Harvard Book Store and Mike's Club, respectively, for predicting the varsity's 16-8 upset over the Indians...
...members, whose names were first announced at Commencement, are Francis Boyer '16 of Philadelphia, James M. Faulkner '20 of Boston, Alexander M. White '25 of New York City, William G. Saltonstall '28 of Exeter, N.H., and Edwin A. Locke, Jr. '32 of Chicago...