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Shock & Excitement. Sprinkled throughout the publications are first, tentative works that show a glimmer of the authors' future power. Double Dealer, published in the 1920s in New Orleans, contains the early poems, stories and criticism of William Faulkner. His gothic eloquence is much in evidence, as is a penchant for backward-running sentences that caught on with other young experimental writers as well. One of his characters, a priest, rhapsodizes...
...finals at the Boston Garden against the Cornell-Princeton victor) cripples Harvard's chances of reaching the finals of the ECAC Tournament and thus receiving an invitation to the NCAA championship in Minnesota. But for the Crimson there still remains a strong dose of pride and the ever-present glimmer of hope...
...then came Transania. I no longer had any doubt of what the outcome would be, and yet a stray glimmer of hope still remained. But it was to be immediately snuffed out, as Transania, New Zenith's equivalent in strength and prestige, affirmed her alliance with Hamil and Inland...
...most kind to him, that stirred the deepest emotions of rage and confusion in him. Three white people in his life--his one-time master Samuel Turner, Judge Cobb, and Margaret Whitehead -- provoked a moment of warm and mutual sympathy in him. They caused him to feel a dim glimmer of hope, and this short-lived thrill left him more perplexed and enraged than before...
Finally, with his entire world crumbled about him and without the slightest glimmer of hope left, Macbeth still insists on summoning up his transcendent courage to meet his death with honor. Fine enough, but Houseman carries the idea too far, and the result elicits smiles. Shakespeare specified that Macduff was to kill Macbeth off stage and then enter with the tyrant's head. Instead, we see the entire duel. Macbeth even picks Macduff up and swings him on his shoulders. Macduff while up there pulls out a dagger and stabs Macbeth in the back. But Macbeth is too strong...