Word: jeffersonism
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...grandson Paul Summers (his daughter Jill is married to a third-year law student at the university). He also toured nearby Civil War battlefields in a battered station wagon. He and his wife lived in a Georgian house just a 15-minute walk from the rolling campus that Thomas Jefferson picked for the university he designed and started to build. Normally shy, Faulkner delighted school officials by accepting outside speaking invitations...
...speaker was Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy, a much-talked-about contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960. In a speech to a Jefferson-Jackson Day fund-raising dinner in Omaha, he called on the U.S. to help Communist Poland maintain its independence by granting the Poles' request for $200 million in U.S. agricultural surpluses (TIME, March 25). And in making his point, Democrat Kennedy took on the argument advanced by Senate Republican Leader Bill Knowland that such aid might strengthen the Communist bloc...
Brownell retired to his back-room office and attacked the security problem in a more effective way. His Department of Justice has successfully prosecuted 14 Smith Act cases (22 Communist functionaries are awaiting trial on Smith Act charges). Communist-front organizations have been hard hit (the Jefferson School in Manhattan recently went out of business after its enrollment dropped to 400 from 14,000 in 1946). The Soble spy case was so handled that it brought confessions, not controversy. Such is the Brownell security record that FBI Director John Edgar Hoover, no man to low-rate the threat of Communism...
...told how Flem Snopes, a repellent specimen of white trash, sidled into Frenchman's Bend. Now, in The Town (the second book in an intended trilogy), Faulkner takes Flem Snopes from his earlier triumphs over the steppingstones of other men's dead selves to higher things in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha's county seat (which closely resembles Oxford, Miss., where Novelist Faulkner has lived for most of his life...
...more or less turns around the fact that Eula, daughter of the old. failed squire Varner, has become pregnant-though nobody is sure by whom. Varner marries her off to Flem Snopes, who advances from shortest-order cook to bank vice president, then moves up several more rungs of Jefferson's social ladder when he permits "Major" De Spain to cuckold him with Eula. His motives are Snopesean and Faulknerian: through a kind of sexual osmosis, he hopes that the Snopes family tree will flourish by association with the aristocratic De Spain. The gentle, white-haired local lawyer, Gavin...