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Ghost Town. Jefferson is saturated with the memory of old feuds and old sins. In eight of his books Faulkner has traced its history through the stories of its once-great families whose descendants still hold on, whose legends still remain. Violent, formless, the books are packed with scenes of murder, suicide, insanity, horror, give as unsparing a picture of social decay as any U. S. novelist has drawn...
...concerned-in idealistic, handsome Anthony Eden, former British Foreign Secretary. He arrived in Manhattan on the Aquitania just in time to change from tweeds to tails and go to the annual banquet of the National Association of Manufacturers at the Waldorf-Astoria. There he delivered a long, rambling, formless speech on Democracy and the Modern World which contained many a plug for Britain, many a warily delivered hint that the U. S. and Britain were pretty much in the same boat...
Disconcerted students, sunburnt, half-blinded, slapping mosquitoes, protecting their easels from Portuguese children, tried vainly to work eyes and ears into their pictures, complained that it was like painting with a trowel. They were embarrassed by Boston sightseers who, revolted by the "horrible, featureless, formless" shapes they painted, called them "mudheads." But they were impressed because Hawthorne seemed indifferent whether they stayed or left, spared nobody...
...Seventy times seven the actual inexpugnable colorless formless and insentient night flows through the well-veined nasal passages with an odor of stale crickets and pale...
When he looks at Kenneth Rexroth's formless verse, he will think of Hamlet's replay to Polonius upon being asked what he read: "Words, words, words...