Word: faulkners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Elizabeth ("Betty") Faulkner Henderson, 82, uninhibited café-society showoff ("I'll relax and behave myself for three days after my wake"), thrice-married widow (her last: Oklahoma Oilman Frank C. Henderson) who once (1947) hoisted a thin-shanked, 72-year-old leg onto a table at the Metropolitan Opera House bar ("What's Marlene Dietrich got that I ain't got?") and gloated in her success as every tabloid spread the exhibit across the nation (East German propaganda displayed it as a sign of "Life in America" degeneracy); of the infirmities of age; in Manhattan...
...Asked, along with other U.S. writers, to wire protests to the U.N., Novelist William Faulkner refused, adding: "Any time we stop hollering and instead organize a posse to penetrate the Iron Curtain to try to tear down a jail and save one innocent victim, I will make...
...concern is themselves-and the place they will have in society-they seem to read less for esthetic pleasure than for answers. They still study, though they do not imitate, such erstwhile heroes as Hemingway and Joyce, but the nearest thing they have to a U.S. literary ideal is Faulkner. James Gould Cozzens has made little impression on them. Students read Koestler, but Orwell gets a bigger play. Eliot holds his own, but as much for his criticism as for his poetry. Dylan Thomas is admired, but evokes no hysteria. Students still delve into Freud, but they are just...
...Series, given by a famous poet who is an alumnus of the Advocate, may, however, be given by William Faulkner, neither as an alumnus nor a poet, if the Nobel prizewinner accepts the magazine's invitation...
...Department made perhaps its most recent advancement by showing that it was cognizant of the importance of contemporary authors, and offered a course on Faulkner...