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Behind the starting fullbacks, Doermann and Ufford, Munro has Bob Sobel at left fullback and Bill Gowan on the other fullback position. As a substitute for Captain Craven in the nets, Roger Taylor will probably see action...
...evoke what Faulkner himself calls "the vast splendid limitless panorama of America." They also invoke the high codes and courage Faulkner associates with the Old South, in this case the founders of Jefferson, Miss, in mythical Yoknapatawpha County, seat of Faulkner's fictional kingdom. The Temple Drakes, the Gowan Stevenses and their slack-spined, country-clubbing breed have corrupted these codes, he implies. The only atonement is suffering. In the South, the Negro knows most about suffering. Perhaps, Faulkner seems to be saying, the Negro will yet help the South find redemption...
Melodramatic Lesson. The brutal core of Sanctuary was the rape of a teasing little society bitch named Temple Drake, and her forced month-long stay in a "Memphis sporting house" after her drunken gentleman escort, Gowan Stevens, had abandoned her to a bunch of petty hoodlums. Temple fell in love with one of the mob named "Red," only to see him murdered...
Requiem finds Temple and Gowan eight years older, but not much wiser. Bound by shame rather than love, they have married, have two children. Gowan is strictly on the wagon, but doubts that he is the father of the elder child. Temple's case is worse. Secretly she yearns for the bad old days, licks the memory of evil as a tongue searches a newly empty tooth-socket. She gets her chance to sin again when Red's younger brother Pete shows up to blackmail her with a packet of her own racy love letters to Red. Staring...
...Snopeses, poor whites who absorbed the cheap commercialism of the carpetbaggers, rising to economic and social power by defeating the Sartoris clan, impotent aristocrats talking about the code of chivalry but unable to bring it to life. Faulkner is especially adept at portraying the creatures of the decayed South: Gowan Stevens, a gentleman of the old school, who learned to drink in a Virginia college but not to overcome his cowardice; Flem Snopes, who would not hesitate to stamp on every living creature to satisfy his greed; and the famous Popeye, a ghastly symbol of machine-age amorality, with...