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...cure such ignorance, yet avoid charges of proselytizing, Warshaw developed a reading course, drawn from the King James Version, that stresses literary influence rather than theological interpretation. His students soon found a new dimension in Moby Dick's Ishmael or Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!, learned the origin of a doubting Thomas, a Jonah or a Judas, and got the point of Handel's Messiah or Harry Belafonte's rocking Noah. On new tests, Warshaw's pupils pushed their grades to high levels, and a couple of students named Cohen and O'Connell got perfect...
...Delta lies vacant and barren all day; it broods in the evening and it cries all night. I get the impression that the land is cursed and suffering, groaning under the awful weight of history's sins. I can understand what Faulkner meant: it must be loved or hated...or both. It's hard to imagine how any music but the blues could have taken root in the black soil around...
CARROLL CLOAR-Alan. 766 Madison Ave. at 66th. "The hypersensitive stillness at twilight is broken now and then by sounds that ride in from far off." Faulkner? No, Carroll Cloar, writing about what he paints. Faulkner's South is Mississippi, Cloar's Arkansas, but they are much the same: both are remembered through a homely yet sinister realism. Eighteen temperas. Through March...
...Regency life anywhere. She has also become the center of a genteel reading cult that has made her for years a runaway bestseller in England and now is spreading to the U.S., proliferating vociferously at ladies' luncheons and in lending libraries. But as with the late William Faulkner, you don't buy a book, you buy a world. If it suits you, you settle down forever...
Dunster's system, which the House Committee approved unanimously last night, tries to "depict mathematically the vagaries of human experience," according to Committee chairman John A. Purvis '64. Devised by Andrew G. Faulkner '64, the system favors thesis-writing seniors. It works as follows...