Word: keep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dodge's brief for the Arboretum further accuses the Corporation of falling to keep the Arboretum an "independent and separate institution," a requirement he infers from the original trust. To this argument Farr counters that "the Arboretum has never been an object or end in itself...
...fancy burlesque, "our two" gulp coffee at a sidewalk cafe. Both women call their lovers "Mon Petit." When one Mon Petit loses his duck, Napoleon, the other Mon Petit wonders why anyone would bother to put a string around a duckling's neck. This dichotomy arises often enough to keep continuity, it adds tart to the essentially sweet story, but it never becomes oppressive...
...they were being privileged to join an exclusive club. The Morgan Guaranty still deals primarily with big customers, but it hunts them with all the relish of a pointer after quail. Alexander has 70 bright young men, his "bird dogs," who spend all their time hustling up new customers, keep them happy with everything from new or better ways to use their money to getting them theater tickets...
...Keeping Up with the Times. In this volume, Faulkner carries the story well beyond World War II, and it is precisely the new material that seems least convincing. Characters get in and out of wars in a way that seems merely to pass time. Linda marries a New York sculptor who is also a Jew and a Communist, but by the time he gets himself killed fighting in the Spanish Civil War, the whole episode has the look of merely trying to keep up with the times. Jefferson, Miss, (really Faulkner's home town of Oxford) sees dramatic changes...
...hard not to see at least some Oppenheimer traits: he has "a universal mind," an otherworldly face and a mesmeric personality. Bloch also belongs to a Communist apparatus, but carries no party card. Young Mark Ampler, a U.S. security agent who enrolls at Bloch's university to keep tab on the physicist promptly falls under his spell. Pearl Harbor packs Mark off to war and sets Sebastian fervently to work on the Bolt, or the Monster, as Author Chevalier interchangeably calls the atom bomb. At war's end, a grieving, disbelieving Ampter discovers that Sebastian has made...