Word: faulkners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said, "but if I could be born again I would choose English. It opens much greater possibilities. Apart from Goethe and the other classics, the German language is not popular. It is not indecent to be unpopular, but this is the fact." How did he rate authors like Faulkner and Hemingway with the big names of earlier generations? "There is a colossal difference in size. Think of the forest of great authors we had in the last century . . . Measured by such standards, the authors of today become primitive miniatures." His opinion of present-day literature? "I do not read many...
...1920s. the new century seemed to be talking (and worrying) more about sex than previous ages. "Frankness" became a respectable pose for cocktail parties, parent-teachers' meetings and literature. The novelists-Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, and later Erskine Caldwell and Faulkner-were blatantly detailed, and behind them stood the anthropologists and psychoanalysts with their case histories. But the generation still had no Kinsey. It was left to him to clothe the subject in the sober, convincing, guaranteed-to-be-scientific garb of statistics...
Without being sacrilegious, I wish that the speech that William Faulkner made at Wellesley [TIME, June 22] could be translated into every language in the world, as it carries a great lesson-in fact, so great, in my humble opinion, that I can see it as an extra page to be inserted in our Christian Bible...
...final signature" that William Faulkner spoke of will never be written by man, because man is incapable of the other attributes that Faulkner bestows on him, namely: that man is competent for a soul because he is capable of saving that soul . . .; that man is capable of teaching himself to be civilized. The pitiful history of man's wars, starvation, sickness, persecution and pestilence is evidence enough that no angels are watching...
...commencements across the U.S., is in a sorry mess. But what is really wrong? And what can be done? Last week one answer came from a man who had gone to Wellesley, Mass, to see his daughter Jill, 19, graduate from Pine Manor Junior College. Said Novelist William (Sanctuary) Faulkner...