Word: faulkners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Novelist William Faulkner-that lover of individualism and privacy...
Playwrights '56 (Tues. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, with Ethel Waters, Lillian Gish, Franchot Tone...
...think that art, etc., has a better soil in the ferocious 100% America than in the Intelligentsia of New York. It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theatres, etc., that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands." ¶"I have just finished Faulkner's Sanctuary, and I think I have understood all the pornographic part, corn cob, etc ... I found myself also absorbed in the story as a whole, without exactly following the thread of it, which it would have taken me a second reading to disentangle . . . Like all these recent writers...
...same stories back to back. There is the boy-meets-girl formula, and then there is crime-doesn't-pay. The public will revolt -this is what happened to motion pictures." Coe this week begins his new NBC series, Playwrights Hour, with scripts by Chayefsky, Philip Wylie, William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. His gloom may be deepened by the fact that his show will run opposite The $64,000 Question during its last half-hour...
...Idol Maker" by Bruce Fearing is the best of a mediocre bunch of stories. A penetrating study of an habitual young liar and his motives for lying, Fearing's story is written and concluded strikingly. His style, however, betrays a small debt to Faulkner ("Jimmy looked at the crude statuette in the palm of his hand. LIAR, LIAR, LIAR, he squeezed it, hoping it would crumble to pieces. . ."), a debt which is hardly concealed by the use of capitals. Although Fearing's story is not likely to live on in anthologies, it is still the best in a rather scant...