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This mini-five-foot shelf will not be the last word on Faulkner. The valuable tools of scholarship have not cleared a path toward the subject; they have built a fortress around it. What the hook's appearance signifies, however, is that the people whom Faulkner referred to as "academic gumshoes" have asserted their clammy hold upon him. In graduate classrooms across the country, students now will be required to read the book. Sad news, that, not only for Faulkner and his readers but for such writers as Pound, Eliot and Wallace Stevens, whose "definitive" biographies have...
Things get a bit sticky when Walton agrees to let his daughter Elvira marry a royalist, Lord Arturo Talbot. They get even more awkward when, on the wedding day, Arturo spirits Enrichetta away from the Puritan fortress to safety. Elvira does not understand that, and goes sweetly and pathetically mad, while Arturo is sentenced in absentia to death...
Solzhenitsyn's response was quick in coming. In a statement issued to Western correspondents last week, he identified Novosti as a "reliable branch" of the secret police and accused Soviet authorities of "standing on their lies behind a fortress of newsprint." He declared that "world public opinion has thus far kept them from killing the author of Gulag or even from imprisoning him. That would indeed be a confirmation of the book. But there remains the time-honored method of slander and personal vilification that is now being vigorously pursued...
...Commission on Critical Choices for America is the latest step in his endless quest for the presidency, broke off negotiations two years ago between the state and the prisoners who had revolted to protest conditions at Attica State Prison. His command to state troopers to surround and retake the fortress led to the unnecessary deaths of 37 prisoners and guards...
From now on, local communities will also handle all drug addiction cases formerly treated in two big federal drug treatment centers. Last year the center in Fort Worth, Texas was closed and this month the famed huge 38-year-old fortress-like hospital in Lexington, Ky., will shut its doors. The explosion of the addict population in the 1960s made it clear that the treatment offered in the federal facilities was not effective. Getting the addicts jobs and re-establishing them in their own neighborhoods proved to be more important than drug therapy or psychiatric training far from home...