Word: laments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impress of the Southern consciousness upon Faulkner's works cannot be erased. The philosophical longing for an ideal society long vanished and the painful consciousness of the attrition of the remaining institutions of that society reflect a state of mind that at its most eloquent, approaches the Romantic lament for a lament which has progressed too far in time past its Golden Age. The coupling of the somewhat unreal and surrealistically horrifying present with an all too real past that can never completely die in the memory lies at the heart of Faulkner's artistic creation. This sense of time...
Chapter 5 ("Lament in Lament") of The Circle of 7 appears on page 12 of today's CRIMSON Review. Security officials are sifting reports of a small, foreign-looking man seen lurking at the offices of Boston Linotype Company (Review printers) at press time last Friday. The stranger soon disappeared. But could this mysterious apparition explain the curious title on the new episode: The Circle...
...Monday: Lament in Lament...
...customer is rarely unsatisfied. For ten, twenty-five, or fifty cents he can take home an outdated best-seller, an old classic, or a valuable curiosity. There are, of course, those who stoically lament the one that got away. ("If I could get my hands on that little old lady who took the complete set of Oscar Wilde for $250, I'd brain...
...elbows locked to his hips in the pose of the cool twist, he sings a celebration of the street-corner king. The song ends with a spin, a pause, and Brown turns back to his listeners-a mask of pain that conjures up the setting for his next lament. In a minute he is downtown again, fingers snapping...